Re:Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems?
by solarkraft on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @07:13AM
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I'm not sure about "Software Engineering", but "Programming" to me sounds like making a computer run something to your liking, which would include configuring it.
Re:Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems?
by bootsz on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @08:39AM
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IMO the problem is that today we generally still only have one name for all of these jobs (software dev|engineer) when it reality we probably need 2 or 3. It makes planning one's career and searching for the right job very difficult.
Re:Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems?
by hawski on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @07:29AM
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Code is data is code. Sometimes in a declarative and a high level language.
Re:Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems?
by MartinCron on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @11:42AM
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Programming, testing, debugging, tuning, and yes, configuring are all parts of the umbrella that I like to call “Professional Software Development”.
All valuable skills, worth respecting and improving.
I saved this thread to "read later" in the hope that I can identify how to get into a position where I am working on interesting problems but more or less, I implement business logic. Of course, it's still slightly interesting when you think about the scale or what I actually created but it's not technically interesting.