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Reset all computers in the embassy with F7? No warning prompt? Fire the idiot who wrote that function.
Reset all computers in the embassy with F7? No warning prompt? Fire the idiot who wrote that function.
The author states they felt it was appropriate when they were fired. In what world would it be appropriate to get fired for a single, simple, incredibly easy to make mistake? Doubly insane when there were exactly zero safeguards in place to prevent the mistake from being made.
> In what world Japan, I guess? I've never been there but the story was consistent with my impression of their work culture.
The author states they felt it was appropriate when they were fired. In what world would it be appropriate to get fired for a single, simple, incredibly easy to make mistake? Doubly insane when there were exactly zero safeguards in place to prevent the mistake from being made.
The author states they felt it was appropriate when they were fired. In what world would it be appropriate to get fired for a single, simple, incredibly easy to make mistake? Doubly insane when there were exactly zero safeguards in place to prevent the mistake from being made.
> In what world Japan, I guess? I've never been there but the story was consistent with my impression of their work culture.
Also, in Japanese companies, it's basically impossible to fire people. They can, however, be assigned to a desk in a windowless room and be given nothing to do for several years, until they take the hint and "voluntarily" quit.
I disagree that it was appropriate that you were fired, but interesting story all about.
The author states they felt it was appropriate when they were fired. In what world would it be appropriate to get fired for a single, simple, incredibly easy to make mistake? Doubly insane when there were exactly zero safeguards in place to prevent the mistake from being made.
Think about it: Unix is equally as "insane". If you're the guy on the console who meant to clean out some crap dir and accidentally typoed "rm -rf /" and then caused an international crisis you're going to get fired too.
Then years later HN will call for Dennis Ritchie to get fired instead.
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He was probably fired because they realized they couldn't put a summer intern in control of such a critical system. I would make the same call.
If you go with this line of reasoning, whoever put him in that position should also be fired, and their boss should be fired for putting someone in charge who made such a poor decision in the first place.
Reset all computers in the embassy with F7? No warning prompt? Fire the idiot who wrote that function.