You’re Not Managing a Team of Software Engineers, You’re Managing Writers

Re:You’re Not Managing a Team of Software Engineers, You’re ... by abduhl on Sunday November 04, 2018 @08:31PM (#18379150)

Thermal contraction would typically not change a particular part/material’s coefficient of friction but rather would potentially decreasing acting normal force. Friction is reduced because contact decreases not because some material characteristic changes.

Pedantic maybe, but it does reiterate the point that a software dev couldn’t design a spacecraft.

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Re:You’re Not Managing a Team of Software Engineers, You’re ... by lovich on Sunday November 04, 2018 @10:42PM (#18379721)

I think you may be missing the point. I was trying to give an example of complexity, not trying to prove that a software engineer could casually walk up and design a spaceship.

The OP's point was that both types of engineering are of similar complexity when contrasted to writing in a natural language

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Re:You’re Not Managing a Team of Software Engineers, You’re ... by ilaksh on Sunday November 04, 2018 @08:40PM (#18379186)

But that has nothing to do with what I was saying. I was saying that engineering is different from writing. There is no reasonable interpretation of what I wrote that is saying that different types of engineers could do each other's jobs.

So the entire thread is unreasonable.

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