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> If it's regularly expected that you ship bugs, you might be in a discipline that is distinct from engineering. Totally disagree. Engineer = design and build
by yodsanklai 5y ago
> If it's regularly expected that you ship bugs, you might be in a discipline that is distinct from engineering.
Totally disagree. Engineer = design and build things. Whether what you build has bugs or not is irrelevant to the definition.
> If you can usually reach for an abstraction to save you, you might be working in something that isn't engineering.
All science is based on abstraction. Laws of physics used by aerospace engineers are abstractions of some more complex reality.
- Scramblejams 5y agoIs a child performing engineering when they resolve to build a tower of blocks and do so? If not, what distinguishes them from someone who is performing engineering? In your view, are simplification and abstraction the same thing? Or do they differ, and if so, in what way?