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I didn't mean "hacker" as opposing engineering. Think of it this way - a hacker will give you an MVP. An engineer will take an MVP and turn it into true-blue i

I didn't mean "hacker" as opposing engineering. Think of it this way - a hacker will give you an MVP. An engineer will take an MVP and turn it into true-blue infrastructure or if that can't be done, give you a technical analysis detailing why not. In some (many) cases, a person will need to do both and they both require their own skill sets. I agree they aren't mutually exclusive, but I never wrote what I wrote to imply that. See also (caveat: I don't wholly agree with this): http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html

robocat 6y ago
> I didn't mean "hacker" as opposing engineering. Your sentence “there isn't the hacker/engineer dichotomy in ‘traditional’ engineering” can be paraphrased as: there is a dichotomy between a hacker and a software engineer... aaarrrgh!! I am saying I have trouble following your comment, and your reply is confusing me further. I just wanted to say that using “hacker” as part of a comment will often cause confusion. Disclaimer: I studied as an electronic engineer, and I consider myself a software engineer (I engineer my software carefully to work reliably as designed: although I can admire a good spaghetti cowboy solution if it meets some commercial or personal goal!) Edit: “I don't wholly agree with this: http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html ,” really displays that the meaning of hacker is a variable.