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Discussion on: What should be in the software developers 'Hippocratic Oath'?

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Arden de Raaij

It's a start alright! Maybe a bit 50's though, with the Divine guidance and all.

To give the utmost of performance;

Sounds pretty Calvanistic to me. If you pledge that nowadays you'll never leave Google campus. Unless it's talking about server performance: "I pledge not to waste resources with my code".

The others points do really resonate though. I'm sure there's quite a few companies you wouldn't work at if they'd be your mantra.