programmers-oath

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Contribution: Poster

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Hey! I found out about this project by chance last night, and I really like what you're doing. I already submitted my signature, but I thought it might be neat...

Alch-Emi

This is just a FYI issue to notify that you were added to the curated awesome-humane-tech in the 'Ethics' category, and - if you like that - are now entitled...

aschrijver

Do no harm

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@chbarts make a good point over on Lobste.rs: https://lobste.rs/s/yojsj3/programmer_s_oath > Point zero is arguable. Is it never permissible to write code that hurts others? Well, that’s the same question as...

Widdershin

Hi @Widdershin , Making you aware of another Hippocratic Oath of ethics for Technologists (by @MKDale) that I just added to [awesome-humane-tech](https://github.com/engagingspaces/awesome-humane-tech): - [Hippocratic Oath for Technologists](https://mkdale.github.io/techoath/) | [ ](https://github.com/MKDale/techoath)...

aschrijver

I came upon [The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto](https://postmeritocracy.org/) which I have added to [awesome-humane-tech](https://github.com/engagingspaces/awesome-humane-tech). It has some interesting points that are relevant to the Programmer's Oath. Though also [some points for improvement](https://github.com/CoralineAda/postmeritocracy/issues/22#issuecomment-422449420)....

aschrijver

ACM ethics code is updated and includes stuff we should have

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The Association for Computing Machinery's Committee on Professional Ethics recently updated their guidelines for being an ethical programmer, after more than 25 years. They described their reasoning in [this Scientific...

pimmen

Making you aware of the Never Again pledge

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Hi @Widdershin :slightly_smiling_face: I would like to make you aware of a somewhat different, but very related effort to the Programmer's Oath: ### The Never Again pledge https://github.com/neveragaindottech/neveragaindottech.github.io and on...

aschrijver

Use Github Pages and a commit hook to extract user info with the Github API

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An interesting extension to this repository would be to have a published webpage (using Github Pages) and a commit hook, which kicks in when a new entry to SIGNATURES is...

aschrijver

I will not exploit human vulnerabilities with the software I build.

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See gambling, social media engagement hooks, porn etc and the general process of addiction. I've seen lives destroyed by these exploits in our human nature by profit seeking individuals and...

mihaisavezi

Mentions of not discriminating and the environment

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I recently looked at the [Archimedean Oath](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedean_Oath) and I think we miss tenets about not disenfranchising people because of their religion, ethnicity, gender or such and respecting the environment. Examples...

pimmen