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Re:Vigilante engineer stops Waymo from patenting key lidar t... by InitialLastName on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @12:02PM (#18122873)
This. It's "engineers" themselves who have degraded the term (once a profession nearly as stringently accredited as doctors or lawyers) by applying it to anyone who can copy/paste stack overflow answers into a text editor.
Re:Vigilante engineer stops Waymo from patenting key lidar t... by wnoise on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @12:24PM (#18123099)
It's not the engineers doing that.

A software developer is an engineer the same way a janitor is a sanitation engineer.

Re:Vigilante engineer stops Waymo from patenting key lidar t... by InitialLastName on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:07PM (#18123550)
I have friends in IT who get really angry when I refer to them as computer-janitors.