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Actual engineers still use it. Not the ones we started calling engineers because they know a bit of Linux and kubernetes. I actually saw a kid a few years ago
by INTPenis 6y ago
Actual engineers still use it. Not the ones we started calling engineers because they know a bit of Linux and kubernetes.
I actually saw a kid a few years ago with a huge UML book, a student at the local uni. Being self-taught I had no idea what it was so I had to look it up. I can't even come close to working with those actual engineers, I just mess around in Bash and automate stuff you can learn for free using open source.
- nexuist 6y agoNot sure why you included the necessary gate-keeping. If you do the same things engineers do, you are an engineer. You may not be a good one, but you still count. > I can't even come close to working with those actual engineers, Then how do you know they still use UML if you've never been around them?
- lainga 6y ago>If you do the same things engineers do, you are an engineer A very American perspective! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Council_of_Professional_Engineers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Council_of_Profession...
- INTPenis 6y agoThe term engineer means different things in different parts of the world I guess.
- aneutron 6y agoI would not love to work with you. That's for sure. I'm 24 years old, one of "those they started calling engineers because they know a bit of linux". But people don't call us engineers just because we know a bit of linux. It's mainly because we solve problems, just as well as you do.
- INTPenis 6y agoUh just to be clear, I am one of those devops engineers who taught themselves. I have a friend who works at Saab engineering and knows UML. He studied for 7 years at uni, I dropped out of 10th grade. There's a huge difference and yet people call me an engineer in certain contexts.
- ex_amazon_sde 6y agoI've never seen anybody using UML in Amazon, despite its culture for documentation, charts, metrics and diagrams.
- 8note 6y agoI see bits and pieces of things that can be considered UML -- sequence diagrams, data models, the odd class diagrams and the like