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The difference, an engineer is told what to build and tries to do that. A programmer is told what to do, and half way thru development they have the boss show
by ecpottinger 4y ago
The difference, an engineer is told what to build and tries to do that.
A programmer is told what to do, and half way thru development they have the boss show up and say 'I just read of this brilliant idea in BusinessWeek, lets add/change the code to do .....".
- collyw 4y agoExcept it's usually more "I just read about fantastic technology X, we need to use that". Ignoring the actually problems we have and whether technology X will solve them in any way at all.