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> She makes no bones about making her living as an entertainer, but she is a very competent designer, builder, and hacker. No arguments there. > Is she an eng
by computerex 9y ago
> She makes no bones about making her living as an entertainer, but she is a very competent designer, builder, and hacker.
No arguments there.
> Is she an engineer, probably not,
Not probably not, but definitely not.
> because she wouldn't build things to a formal spec and report tolerances and fail rates, etc, but that's not the end all and be all of creation.
Agreed.
- olavk 9y agoThats just gatekeeping. According to the dictionary, an engineer is someone who designs and builds machines or structures. That definitely applies, even if her machines are deliberately shitty.
- dnautics 9y agofine. She's not an engineer. She even calls herself a not-engineer. There's a legal term engineer, which has definitions and qualifications associated with it, a technical term engineer that has some specific connotations built against it, and an informal term engineer that is dominant in the software "engineer"ing community. She's not 1) nor 2) but "probably not but maybe" 3).