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Maybe it's because real engineering has higher stakes than a crud app. Condos can kill, bridges can kill, Javascript forms or video game engines generally can't
by c-cube 5y ago
Maybe it's because real engineering has higher stakes than a crud app. Condos can kill, bridges can kill, Javascript forms or video game engines generally can't. If they could we'd witness a lot more deaths, despite your confidence.
- renewiltord 5y agoI have a personal philosophy: "if you can't do it well, don't do it at all". That's because I prize my ability at what I do. I am good at it. I am a craftsman. Not like these fly-by-night characters busy dropping concrete on people's heads. Maybe I need to teach these "real engineers" something about building things haha: "If you can't do it without killing people, don't do it". Man, that's a motto for the ages. You'd think you don't have to teach people that, but here we are. Maybe we should teach them ethics, because whatever class they took on that, it didn't take. As a practitioner of quality and making money with zero killing, I could help.
- Nicksil 5y ago>I have a personal philosophy: "if you can't do it well, don't do it at all". That's because I prize my ability at what I do. I am good at it. Maybe I need to teach these "real engineers" something about building things haha: "If you can't do it without killing people, don't do it". Man, that's a motto for the ages. You'd think you don't have to teach people that, but here we are. You're trying too hard. It's embarrassing.
- strangeattractr 5y agoWhy bother with the software engineering, your moral sensibilities are needed everywhere. It's not every day someone emerges capable of writing a todo app in react without killing anyone
- renewiltord 5y agoHAHA! What can I say? Some of us are made of sterner stuff.
- jazzyjackson 5y agoI see an awful lot of skyscrapers not falling down every day, stands to reason some engineers are good at what they do, no?
- renewiltord 5y agoOh there are good engineers, certainly. But the field as a whole clearly is immature since it causes more deaths than software engineers do.