Envisage this, if you will...
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This may be a slightly grim scenario, but after reading a particular Dilbert cartoon this question has been pestering me incessantly. If the next project your manager gave you had you writing code for a missile guidance system, how would you react? Could you sleep at night knowing without too much doubt that somewhere in the world, your C++ program was helping a surface-to-surface missile find it's target? This doesn't apply to me or anyone I know, but I'm curious as to whether anybody here would turn down a job such as this on the basis of how it could affect your conscience?
A programming language is to a programmer what a fine hat is to one who is fond of fancy garden parties. Just don't try wearing any .NET language on your head. Some of them are sharp.
Assuming that it's a defense contract for my own government, I would gleefully accept the project. Otherwise, no.
XAlan Burkhart
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This may be a slightly grim scenario, but after reading a particular Dilbert cartoon this question has been pestering me incessantly. If the next project your manager gave you had you writing code for a missile guidance system, how would you react? Could you sleep at night knowing without too much doubt that somewhere in the world, your C++ program was helping a surface-to-surface missile find it's target? This doesn't apply to me or anyone I know, but I'm curious as to whether anybody here would turn down a job such as this on the basis of how it could affect your conscience?
A programming language is to a programmer what a fine hat is to one who is fond of fancy garden parties. Just don't try wearing any .NET language on your head. Some of them are sharp.
I'd write it in a heart beat. Interestingly enough, I draw the line on religion and porn sites. I won't touch those.
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This may be a slightly grim scenario, but after reading a particular Dilbert cartoon this question has been pestering me incessantly. If the next project your manager gave you had you writing code for a missile guidance system, how would you react? Could you sleep at night knowing without too much doubt that somewhere in the world, your C++ program was helping a surface-to-surface missile find it's target? This doesn't apply to me or anyone I know, but I'm curious as to whether anybody here would turn down a job such as this on the basis of how it could affect your conscience?
A programming language is to a programmer what a fine hat is to one who is fond of fancy garden parties. Just don't try wearing any .NET language on your head. Some of them are sharp.
I make a point of not directly working for 'defense' companies. However I realise life is more complicated than this - in the sense that there are connections between many seemingly unrelated things. I think in the end it comes down to the conscious choices one makes - it it not easy to influence what the government does with my taxes but I can decide who benefits from my skills...
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
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This may be a slightly grim scenario, but after reading a particular Dilbert cartoon this question has been pestering me incessantly. If the next project your manager gave you had you writing code for a missile guidance system, how would you react? Could you sleep at night knowing without too much doubt that somewhere in the world, your C++ program was helping a surface-to-surface missile find it's target? This doesn't apply to me or anyone I know, but I'm curious as to whether anybody here would turn down a job such as this on the basis of how it could affect your conscience?
A programming language is to a programmer what a fine hat is to one who is fond of fancy garden parties. Just don't try wearing any .NET language on your head. Some of them are sharp.