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Re:California teaches inmates code; some states ban them fro... by lovich on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @12:33AM (#15069730)
I don't mean to muddy it, its already muddied. Saying someone is a lawyer is easy, if they passed the bar they are a lawyer. If someone has a medical license they are a doctor. There is no equivalent for software engineering. If you got 20 software engineers in a room you'd end up with 25 definitions for what a software engineer is.

A good portion of the software community does not want a governing body over the industry. If we are going to accept that, then we also need to accept that titles are meaningless because there are no standards.

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Re:California teaches inmates code; some states ban them fro... by eropple on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @02:18PM (#15075053)
I don't accept that and I think that those people are, by and large, why we need one.

But, by "muddying", I was referring to the original post I replied to that pimped services for turning people into somewhat-competent web developers and calling them engineers. Sorry for the confusion.

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