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That sentence is a little awkward but I'm not seeing anything horrible about it. (Surely you're not complaining that there should be a "?" at the end?) I stuc

That sentence is a little awkward but I'm not seeing anything horrible about it. (Surely you're not complaining that there should be a "?" at the end?) I stuck it into the Stanford NLP parser ( http://nlp.stanford.edu:8080/parser/index.jsp http://nlp.stanford.edu:8080/parser/index.jsp ) and the output matched my prior reckons.

mfoy_ 11y ago
Perhaps it's just wrong? A software engineer doesn't think about user authentication and encryption every time someone logs in to any popular service. That would be silly, and impossible. I mean, maybe it's just being hyperbolic Or maybe it is just supposed to mean that a software engineer had to think about, and set up, the login system for each system you log in to at some point.
- morgante 11y ago
  Technically, it's trivially true. Of course a software engineer has at some point "thought about user registration and authentication." I presume that's what it's going for, but all in this is one of the worst promotional blog posts I've ever read.
  - mfoy_ 11y ago
    I was being generous and assuming they meant "every time a user logs in, a software engineer thinks about security" because the alternative is literally meaningless. To elaborate, statements like "every time you shake hands with someone, a volcano has erupted" are equally, trivially, true. They just don't mean anything-- anything at all. There exists some volcano which has erupted. Therefore any time you shake hands with someone, eat a meal, go to sleep, push a button, etc... that statement is still true, just like it was and would be with or without your entire existence. At which point you're just saying words to hit some word count or something. Or maybe allude to some unstated connection... ?
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
  I wasn't addressing its truthiness, just responding to the claim that it "has no coherent meaning in the English language".

mfoy_ 11y ago

Perhaps it's just wrong? A software engineer doesn't think about user authentication and encryption every time someone logs in to any popular service. That would be silly, and impossible. I mean, maybe it's just being hyperbolic Or maybe it is just supposed to mean that a software engineer had to think about, and set up, the login system for each system you log in to at some point.

morgante 11y ago
Technically, it's trivially true. Of course a software engineer has at some point "thought about user registration and authentication." I presume that's what it's going for, but all in this is one of the worst promotional blog posts I've ever read.
- mfoy_ 11y ago
  I was being generous and assuming they meant "every time a user logs in, a software engineer thinks about security" because the alternative is literally meaningless. To elaborate, statements like "every time you shake hands with someone, a volcano has erupted" are equally, trivially, true. They just don't mean anything-- anything at all. There exists some volcano which has erupted. Therefore any time you shake hands with someone, eat a meal, go to sleep, push a button, etc... that statement is still true, just like it was and would be with or without your entire existence. At which point you're just saying words to hit some word count or something. Or maybe allude to some unstated connection... ?
GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
I wasn't addressing its truthiness, just responding to the claim that it "has no coherent meaning in the English language".