{"id":18737,"date":"2017-08-28T15:41:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T19:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18737"},"modified":"2017-08-29T13:15:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T17:15:36","slug":"just-following-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/28\/just-following-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Following Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cleancoder.com\/uncle-bob\/2017\/08\/28\/JustFollowingOders.html\">Robert C. Martin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.cleancoder.com\/uncle-bob\/2017\/08\/28\/JustFollowingOders.html\">\n<p>The year is 2006. Executives at VW know that their diesel engine can not meet American emissions standards. So they ask the enginers for a solution that does not require a redesign of the engine. [&#8230;] We may never know all the details; but it&rsquo;s clear that the executives asked the engineers to find a way to defeat the emission tests.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Engineers take note: Your employer can&rsquo;t cover for you. Doing your job does not mean that you just follow orders. The courts are going to hold you to a high ethical standard, even if your employer does not.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2017-08-29): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=15101028\">Hacker News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert C. Martin: The year is 2006. Executives at VW know that their diesel engine can not meet American emissions standards. So they ask the enginers for a solution that does not require a redesign of the engine. [&#8230;] We may never know all the details; but it&rsquo;s clear that the executives asked the engineers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1167,209],"class_list":["post-18737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-car","tag-legal"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18756,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18737\/revisions\/18756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}