Yes he did admit that but that doesnt mean he was negligent. those cars are built for speed etc so it would be the reasonable man’s assumption that he would be able to drive in rain at 120km/h. the state had to prove that he drove faster, they couldnt do that, there were no witnesses to say that he was driving faster than that but there were witnesses that said they did not think he was speeding. the court has to go on the evidence presented to it and based on that evidence the court could not find that he was negligent. these things become very technical.
See this case:
S v Naidoo and Others (321/2001) [2002] ZASCA 136; [2002] 4 All SA 710 (SCA) (14 November 2002)
The crime of culpable homicide, on the other hand, (certainly as regards the consequence (death) of the impugned act or omission) postulates an absence of dolus and the presence of culpa . The fact that the crime of culpable homicide may be committed even where the act which causes death is an intentional act of assault should not be allowed to obscure that essential truth. In such a case the perpetrator is not convicted of culpable homicide simply because he or she deliberately assaulted a person as a consequence of which it so happened that the person died. If the perpetrator could not reasonably have foreseen that death might ensue, a conviction of culpable homicide cannot be justified. Aliter if death should have been foreseen as a possible consequence. What this shows is that it is the perpetrator’s culpable failure to foresee the possibility of death in cases where an assault has resulted in death and, in cases not involving an assault, that failure coupled with a further culpable failure, namely, a failure to do what could and should have been done to prevent the occurrence of death, that is the rationale for the conviction of culpable homicide. Culpa is therefore always present in the crime of culpable homicide. Sometimes it is also associated with dolus (as in intentional assaults resulting in reasonably foreseeable but actually unforeseen death). Sometimes it is not (as in negligent conduct resulting in reasonably foreseeable death). For a penetrating and instructive analysis of these matters see Professor Roger Whiting’s article “Negligence, Fault and Criminal Liability” in (1991) 108 SALJ 431.
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I mainly get offended because it’s not like they’d ask an accountant to prove that they can balance the books in an interview. Why do they think it’s OK to make developers perform tricks in front of them like circus animals.
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I cannot waaaaaaaaaaaaaait
Oh wait no, I dont want to go home, this is going to be a long weekend
OMW
so i just got offered a job, that i cannot say no too. Its for one of my old employers’ clients who are in the shipping industry and they are willing to pay me an insane salary for personal assistant services, plus the option of taking over the running of the business in SA once they open up their next office in the states etc
wow, im like blown away…
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Dis awesome Wenz! Baie baie geluk!
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Congrats!
Now you can afford to RGB everything!
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Wherever I can get a job offer 
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ja im still like blown away but will be going for a face to face interview/meeting tomorrow, but they want me to resign asap
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Eh, cant decide what to play so nah
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I cant choose what game to play , so not a clue at the moment… updating my trello list so i can decide
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Happens more often than not, but I mostly blame the interview process. If you’re asking someone to do something like “take this list and reverse the order, then remove every second line unless it contains the letter p”, I legit asked someone what the practical implications for this garbage code would be and where they actually use in in their product. Quick answer, they don’t. Longer answer “we want to see if you can code”. Really? Someone with a degree(s) in computer science, multiple industry certifications that require them to write code, several years of programming experience and an extensive collection of open source projects freely available on Github… Nope, that person needs to do a fizzbuzz test.
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Real full-stack developers/engineers are unicorns. Especially in web and mobile apps. I’m sorry to say, but 99% of so called full stack developers’ front ends are absolute trash. Even supposedly front end developers usually can’t build a cohesive, performant, attractive and easy user interface.
I’ve worked with enough developers in teams of varying sizes, some of them reporting to me, some of them directly employed by me and many of them never under my management mandate (i.e. other contractors or employees of my clients) to see what the general skills pool in South Africa is capable of. And the reality is they can’t do front end work.
As vain as it sounds, I’m one of those unicorns with incredible front- and back end skills. People never believe me when I say I can build outstanding front ends, until they work with me. Many of them then thank me for my mentorship during the projects and for being so helpful and humble. Yes, I’m generally quite humble and hate drawing attention to myself and hate receiving praise and thanks for my work, as good as I know it is.
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The lead developer I work with is a full stack developer in the real sense of the word. I know because I have had to test his work for 4 years. He single handedly developed all our products, both front and back end in the beginning until the company took off and he started allocating other developers to the projects. He still does both front and back end plus he wrote his own backend logic/dbase testing platform to go with it.
He is a genius and not humble at all. I respect him for his incredible skill at creating complex algorithms out of thin air to solve all our business project complexities. I think his faith in his abilities is part of what makes him so good. Much like a surgeon, he needs that to succeed. So I fully understand where you are coming from.
The interesting thing is, he has recruited 3 other full stack developers, mentored them and now they are almost as good as he is. He is also a good teacher and tough task master.
If it wasn’t for his pushing me I would still be the kind of tester that just manually clicks through UI to see if it works. I now code scripts to do most of the grunt regression testing for me while trying to break the new features as they are produced.
He would kill me if I told him this but he has shaped my professional life to a huge extent.
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Morning all.
A bit late but congratz @wenzdayz
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