Programmers discuss about the unethical and illegal things they have been asked to do
Programmers discuss about the unethical and illegal things they have been asked to do Programmer repents for creating code designed to cheat teen girls Earlier last week, a post written by Canadian programmer and teacher Bill Sourour went viral. It’s called “Code I’m Still Ashamed Of.” After viewing a talk by Robert Martin, called “The Future of Programming,” Sourour was inspired to write the post. Martin is a famous-in-his-world programmer and speaker better known as “Uncle Bob.” Sourour explained how he was asked to build a website for a pharmaceutical company, where he was fooled into helping it dodge drug advertising laws to convince young women to take a particular drug. According to Sourour, he was asked to create an informational site for a type of illness whose treatment was aimed at teenage girls. His creation: a quiz in which the only result was that the girl should take the client’s drug. He discovered the drug was known to worsen depression and that at least one woman comm
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