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Funny, I actually been using plumbing analogy all this time when talking to non tech people. Many people think too highly of what I actually did. I too feel lik
by matz1 8y ago
Funny, I actually been using plumbing analogy all this time when talking to non tech people. Many people think too highly of what I actually did. I too feel like using the word engineer is sugar coating it.
- Apocryphon 8y agoThe internet is a series of tubes meme aside, I've felt that a lot of modern engineering, at least tying together REST APIs with web/mobile GUIs to do CRUD, is really just data plumbing. We're just packaging and unpacking blobs of information. That's it. And the difficulty involved is that we're not yet smart enough to build efficient, easily-adopted systems that use natural language and don't contain a million dependencies and hacky workarounds.