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> SWEs, on the other hand, have a tendency to build mental models that are more conceptual or metaphysical, and try and force these onto real-world silicon. Ak
by goodpoint 5y ago
> SWEs, on the other hand, have a tendency to build mental models that are more conceptual or metaphysical, and try and force these onto real-world silicon.
Aka if you are a good software engineer you understand well how hardware works and how to push the boundaries.
If you a Stack Overflow copypaste technician you are nowhere near an engineer.
- AussieWog93 5y ago>Aka if you are a good software engineer you understand well how hardware works and how to push the boundaries. It's not even necessarily about pushing the boundaries and milking every last drop out of the hardware; there's a culture amongst even productive senior software engineers of handwaving over hardware altogether. From my experience, bringing up optimisations or performance around non-embedded, non-gaming software engineers will invariably steer the discussion towards big-O notation and algorithmic abstractions.