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Though at this point I think you could argue software 'engineers' make way more than on real engineers. At least the upside is much higher. I can not think of a
by tkojames 5y ago
Though at this point I think you could argue software 'engineers' make way more than on real engineers. At least the upside is much higher. I can not think of any other job where you can have no formal education and have chance of making over 500k a year. Which makes your point even stronger.. we pay the people who design things that could kill you less and make them way more accountable. I hate being called software engineer I feel a developer is a better term.
- Cerium 5y agoI write software for medical devices, and where I work we take the stance that we are software engineers, not developers or programmers. The idea being that we design things that without the right failure analysis and mitigations could indeed kill people. The fact that we have an excellent track record is due to our engineering of a safe system.
- gwmnxnp_516a 5y agoWell some "real engineers" really do code, but mostly not CRUD applications. Most embedded systems, industrial control systems and avionic software are designed and crafted by electronic/electrical engineers. High performance computing number crunching is also dominated by physicists and engineers that uses that for physics simulation, particle physics studies, aerospace design, CFD - Computational Fluid Simulation, FEM - Finite Element Methods and so on. This case of MyBook seems to be another case of vulnerability caused by C. Actually most CVE vulnerabilities happens due programming mistakes that the C language makes easier to make such as to buffer overflow, out-of-bounds array access, undefined behaviour, use-after-free and etc.