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> Back in university, students used to tease the Systems Design Engineers, calling it "boxes and arrows" engineering. Not real engineering, you see, since it di
by karmakaze 4y ago
> Back in university, students used to tease the Systems Design Engineers, calling it "boxes and arrows" engineering. Not real engineering, you see, since it didn't touch anything tangible, like buildings, motors, hydrochloric acid, or, uh, electrons.
Hey, I resemble that remark! Quite true though. The common paths I saw was adding a specialization or continuing on getting an MBA for others.
- anonporridge 4y agoEven the nerds have an internal hierarchy where they tease the deeper nerds.
- p0pcult 4y ago...and the shallower nerds.
- kimburgess 4y agoWhen working on any system: people who built the abstraction layer you're working with - enlightened geniuses; anyone using the abstraction layer you create - literal monkeys. It's a recursive relation that applies across full stack.