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If the majority of the people in the industry are idiots [...] The majority of people in the industry aren't idiots. Imagine if you couldn't advise your frien
by waitwhat 15y ago
If the majority of the people in the industry are idiots [...]
The majority of people in the industry aren't idiots.
Imagine if you couldn't advise your friends on how to clean up their registry, or write a script for them because you were practicing computing with out a license! Imagine the silliness of being arrested for showing someone how to use an abacus.
You're just being silly. It is not illegal for me to suggest someone take a pill if they have a headache, offer a friend an anti-histamine, put a plaster on my girl-friend's cut, or clean my nephew's scraped knee with anti-septic. It is also not illegal for me to help prepare someone else's tax return, or the paperwork for small claims court.
What is illegal, is presenting myself as a qualified professional when I am not. That, to me, sounds eminently reasonable.
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- rimantas 15y ago> presenting myself as a qualified > professional when I am not. Certification actually would allow many to do exactly that legally. Comparison with medicine and architecture does not apply there for the reasons named elsewhere in comments.
- waitwhat 15y agoCertification actually would allow many to do exactly that legally. I meant qualified/certified not qualified/competent.
- briandear 15y agoDefine "qualified" when it comes to computers.
- waitwhat 15y agoIt's not that long ago that people were wondering how to "define 'qualified' when it comes to medicine", and even less when it comes to architecture. Just because something is difficult does not in and of itself make that thing not worth doing.