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I imagine this is how professional engineers feel about HN folk calling themselves software engineers.
by olliecornelia 4y ago
I imagine this is how professional engineers feel about HN folk calling themselves software engineers.
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- rcme 4y agoI don't think railroad workers have much of an opinion on the title of software engineers.
- bboylen 4y agoAs a former chemical engineer, I think software engineering is way harder. Understanding with complex man made abstractions is much more difficult than plugging data into a thermodynamics calculator
- akiselev 4y ago> professional engineers When the GP says "professional engineer", I suspect they mean the big boy official kind [1] that goes to prison if they sign off on a negligent design. It's not a question of difficulty but responsibility and qualifications (though to be clear, the PE is considered more time consuming to prepare for than the BAR exam and it's definitely much harder than plugging numbers into formulas). [1] https://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure/what-pe https://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure/what-pe
- Uptrenda 4y agoI think it's pretty low stalking someones HN comments and using them to form a character assassination to dismiss someone's ideas.