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SpaceAceJase
Nov 8, 2008

and you
have proved
to be...

a real shitty poster,
and a real james
Do any of you computer touchers call yourselves engineers?
Traditional engineers are regulated, certified, and subject to apprenticeship and continuing education.

Let's get this straight. Silicon Valley is cheapening the title of "Engineer".

Here's a list of things that are not engineering:
  • social engineering
  • sanitation engineering (garbage collection)
  • railroad engineering (train driving)
  • software engineering
  • network engineering

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Incomplete Fish
Apr 22, 2006

Grimey Drawer
posting engineer

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


OP is right even if he obviously thinks he isn't.

Tiny Bug Child
Sep 11, 2004

Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror

SpaceAceJase posted:

Here's a list of things that are not engineering:
  • software engineering

nope, sorry, wrong. my degree is in software engineering

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Tiny Bug Child posted:

nope, sorry, wrong. my degree is in software engineering

Doesn't matter what your degree is in. Your alma mater is wrong.

SpaceAceJase
Nov 8, 2008

and you
have proved
to be...

a real shitty poster,
and a real james

Tiny Bug Child posted:

nope, sorry, wrong. my degree is in software engineering

Sorry but unless you're writing low level code that doesn't need a compiler you can't consider your education within the engineering discipline


programming should be re-categorized as one of the arts

Tiny Bug Child
Sep 11, 2004

Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror

SpaceAceJase posted:

Sorry but unless you're writing low level code that doesn't need a compiler you can't consider your education within the engineering discipline

this is nonsense. i'm an engineer because the code i write is "high level" (i.e. non-archaic) enough that it doesn't need a compiler

JewKiller 3000
Nov 28, 2006

by Lowtax
don't give a poo poo, will continue

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


SpaceAceJase posted:

Sorry but unless you're writing low level code that doesn't need a compiler you can't consider your education within the engineering discipline


programming should be re-categorized as one of the arts

This dude is 100% correct.

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

Tiny Bug Child posted:

this is nonsense. i'm an engineer because the code i write is "high level" (i.e. non-archaic) enough that it doesn't need a compiler

you write php. sanitation engineering was already covered in the op

Necc0
Jun 30, 2005

by exmarx
Broken Cake

SpaceAceJase posted:

Here's a list of things that are not engineering:
  • software engineering

http://www.softwareengineerinsider.com/abet/abet-software-engineering-programs.html

Necc0
Jun 30, 2005

by exmarx
Broken Cake
i get the point you're making, though. just bein sassy ;)

Joe 30330
Dec 20, 2007

"We have this notion that if you're poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids."

As the audience reluctantly began to applaud during the silence, Biden tried to fix his remarks.

"Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids -- no, I really mean it." Biden said.

Incomplete Fish posted:

posting engineer

taco_fox
Dec 14, 2005

you can get a PE for software engineering in texas






fucker

Suspicious
Apr 30, 2005
You know he's the villain, because he's got shifty eyes.
lol texas "education" strikes again

creationist believer
Feb 16, 2007

College Slice
ive got PE SE. by that i mean i'qve got physically exhausted by slight exercise

Powerful Two-Hander
Mar 10, 2004

Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.


i can actually apply for chartered engineer status because there's an accrediting body for computer touching in the UK

cEng is supposed to be to indicate that you can be trusted to sign off on safety critical poo poo like buildings so i feel that this devalues the whole idea but im gonna apply anyway because lol

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord

Tiny Bug Child posted:

nope, sorry, wrong. my degree is in software engineering
tbc has a degree :wth:

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

avatar
specialist


op please add "process engineering" to the list

it's what i say i do when i draw random boxes and squiggly arrows on a pad of paper when the person i'm talking to has me cornered and i couldn't give less of a poo poo

Otaku Alpha Male
Nov 11, 2012

bitches get ~tsundere~ when I pull out my katana
mfw i engineer le software

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

im a team fortress 2 engineer

Otaku Alpha Male
Nov 11, 2012

bitches get ~tsundere~ when I pull out my katana
get you Software Engineering degree today:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unaccredited_institutions_of_higher_education

power botton
Nov 2, 2011

im in product management why would i claim to be an engineer

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



engineer is a title for when your work can directly cause the death of one or more individuals if done incorrectly

Otaku Alpha Male
Nov 11, 2012

bitches get ~tsundere~ when I pull out my katana
that guys minesweeper blew up a whole block

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
*hammers two arduinos together* I'm an engineer!

Peanut and the Gang
Aug 24, 2009

by exmarx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp8hvyjZWHs

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

im a maker

Suspicious
Apr 30, 2005
You know he's the villain, because he's got shifty eyes.
when computers are sick i make them well again. i'm a doctor

Deep Dish Fuckfest
Sep 6, 2006

Advanced
Computer Touching


Toilet Rascal
i'm whatever gets me paid the most with the least legal liability

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

im a network architect :smug:

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

YeOldeButchere posted:

i'm whatever gets me paid the most with the least legal liability

tmesis
Jan 18, 2007

sup holmes
Megamarm

triple sulk posted:

engineer is a title for when your work can directly cause the death of one or more individuals if done incorrectly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

tmesis
Jan 18, 2007

sup holmes
Megamarm
next you're going to tell me i can't be an architect

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Doc Block
Apr 15, 2003
Fun Shoe
u mad bro?

emoji
Jun 4, 2004
100% of engineering these days is using software tools with the additional component of regulatory compliance (100% of which is worked out by external consulting firms specializing in subsections of the federal register) and then signing off on projects.

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

creationist believer posted:

ive got PE SE. by that i mean i'qve got physically exhausted by slight exercise

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Otaku Alpha Male posted:

mfw i engineer le software


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Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde
"programming is an art/craft" uh no, not the way i do it :c00l:

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