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Re:How to Make Toast: Electrical Engineering vs. Computer Sc... by crgwbr on Monday December 02, 2019 @07:50PM (#21688818)
I’d hardly call it inflammatory. It’s merely a humorous story about over-complication in engineering problems.
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Re:How to Make Toast: Electrical Engineering vs. Computer Sc... by na85 on Monday December 02, 2019 @07:59PM (#21688876)
Au contraire, I think it's a parable about software departments being overstaffed and producing churn to fill the hours. See: Uber Engineering, Google rewriting everything all the time, Javascript frameworks of the month^H^H^H^H^H week, etc.
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Re:How to Make Toast: Electrical Engineering vs. Computer Sc... by helpPeople on Monday December 02, 2019 @07:56PM (#21688856)
Wait... The computer scientist is not an engineer.
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Re:How to Make Toast: Electrical Engineering vs. Computer Sc... by ncmncm on Monday December 02, 2019 @09:02PM (#21689267)
Exactly. Use an engineer for an engineering problem.

Mark Twain wrote, "An engineer is a [person] who can do for a dime what any damn fool can do for a dollar." Adjusting for inflation, the engineer can do for a million dollars what any damn fool can do for a billion.

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