I know software engineering is not Engineering (don't @ me) and that tech entrepreneurship is not software engineering, but it's wild to read the NSPE code of ethics just for a sense of how out of pocket these silicon valley dudes are. www.nspe.org/career-growt... - ThreadSky

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erikahall.bsky.social • 58 days ago

I know software engineering is not Engineering (don't @ me) and that tech entrepreneurship is not software engineering, but it's wild to read the NSPE code of ethics just for a sense of how out of pocket these silicon valley dudes are.

https://www.nspe.org/career-growth/nspe-code-ethics-engineers

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productnerd.bsky.social•58 days ago

It's wild to see all the casual antitrust behaviours in this industry. You can go to any startup event and win antitrust bingo in the first hour.

erikahall.bsky.social•58 days ago

"regulatory entrepreneurship" is now taught in business schools

productnerd.bsky.social•58 days ago

I hate this.

erikahall.bsky.social•58 days ago

https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/2556/

productnerd.bsky.social•58 days ago

I didn't think I could hate this idea even more, but here we are.

thingsandstuff.wtf•58 days ago

Poseurs

kevdog.bsky.social•58 days ago

I saw one of Elon’s VC fanboys saying the Musk needs fewer government regulations so that he can “Innovate at the speed of physics” and I nearly vomited on my iPad in disgust.

erikahall.bsky.social•58 days ago

Aren't they supposed to be on Mars already? Why won't they go to Mars?

Oh yeah…physics.

aiyaruk.bsky.social•58 days ago

I think doing software far enough away from the nuts and bolts melts your brain because it gives you the illusion that the universe is infinitely mutable

djbeltrami.bsky.social•57 days ago

"No ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.”
–Nathaniel Borenstein

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