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Re:Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to ... by dagw on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @07:26AM (#13062603)
I wouldn't. I work with lots of (non-software) engineers and I bet that most of them couldn't produce an non-trivial .bat without a lot of googling.
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Re:Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to ... by subway on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @08:26AM (#13062867)
I'm pretty sure the structural engineer next to me has no clue wtf a script is. Fortunately this conversation is about software engineers.
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Re:Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to ... by dagw on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @08:46AM (#13062964)
Actually this conversation is about "anyone exposed to a Unix system", of which software engineers is a small subset.
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