Re:Is developer compensation becoming bimodal?
by stochastic_monk on Friday February 09, 2018 @08:06AM
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I don’t typically think of web developers as software engineers.
I think of work like FFTW and the Tensor Algebra COmpiler (TACO) as software engineering.
Re:Is developer compensation becoming bimodal?
by gaius on Friday February 09, 2018 @08:21AM
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Whereas when I say "software engineering" I am referring to formal methods, or software components of engineered systems e.g. avionics. Nevertheless - the point is that lots of professions automate themselves. Now that I think about it even a doctor who invents a more effective treatment lessening the workload of other doctors is using medicine to automate medicine.
Because in scenario A the main skill being applied is mechanical engineering and in scenario B the main skill being applied is RoR.
If everyone who ever writes a line of code is a "software developer" would you include an Excel VBA 10-liner writer? Probably not, and nor would that person include themselves, they're an accountant (or whatever).