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Should I Build It?

Brian Rinaldi on June 05, 2019

Those of us who began our coding career in the late 90's grew comfortable asking ourselves "Can I build it?" Programming, especially for the web, w...
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Max Ong Zong Bao

I think it is hard to teach ethics especially when your from different countries with different cultures context.

Peter F Drucker tried to define it as well but in the end focus on philosophy structure than a general ethics.

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kleene1

When working with people I'm surprised when some people dont think of certain ethics when developing - using api's and you are using peoples data. You have to be careful what you think should be shown of their data and have discussions about it.

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Ben Sinclair

Should we have foreseen that this same technology would eventually enable the modern-day surveillance state?

We did, we foresaw all of of this bar the specific technologies.

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Sean Francis N. Ballais

I think we should acknowledge the fact that all tools may be misused. The only thing we can do is reduce the likelihood of opportunities for misuse to arise.