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That makes absolutely zero sense, though. She's also not a twitter personality. She's a full-blown engineer with a very popular Youtube channel and following an
by junon 5y ago
That makes absolutely zero sense, though. She's also not a twitter personality. She's a full-blown engineer with a very popular Youtube channel and following and has done these sorts of things quite often.
- morelisp 5y agoWhatever else she also is, she's absolutely a social media personality. > full-blown engineer This, I seriously doubt. As far as I know she's very deep in the DIY/maker scene, but I don't think she's been flashing around a PE cert. Or maybe we have a difference of opinion what a "full-blown engineer" is.
- vangelis 5y agoThere's a lot of engineers out there who wouldn't count as engineers by that metric.
- sho_hn 5y agoNaomi Wu is not a US citizen (the English name is a pseudonym). The NSPE is a US-only entity.
- brokensegue 5y agoi'm an engineer and i'm not even sure what "PE cert" stands for. certification means very litte.
- lapetitejort 5y agoA Professional Engineer certification can mean "We trust you to work on things where human lives may be at stake". Gatekeeping engineers use this to exclude everyone else. If your screw-up doesn't cost human lives then you're not a real engineer.
- junon 5y ago> If your screw-up doesn't cost human lives then you're not a real engineer. This is such a ridiculous, asinine, and outright wrong assertion that it warrants no reasoned response.
- dang 5y agoIn that case please follow the site guidelines, which ask you not to reply. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29023822 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29023822 also broke the site guidelines. That's not cool, regardless of how bad other comments are or you feel they are. Would you please review them and take the intended spirit of this place more to heart? We'd appreciate it.
- sho_hn 5y agoI'm fairly sure the post you're replying you was interpretative-facetious.
- junon 5y agoI got that, it was directed towards the engineers who act this way. I've met too many of them as well.
- anthk 5y agoEuropean here. You answer is the most ridiculous answer here. Here if you are not an ACTUAL Engineer with a Degree, on civil issues with harms you could be jailed, and your manager would suffer the same fate. Here being an Engineer is a SERIOUS duty, you half assed software "Engineer" titles would be void upon regularizing your academic earnings. Mostly a Trade/Vocational Degree and that's it. Harsh? Human lives are a serious issue.
- dang 5y agoPlease do not post in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is. We've had to ask you this multiple times before. That's not cool. You also broke the site guidelines by crossing into personal attack below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29025655 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29025655 We're trying to avoid this kind of thing here, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.