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Re:Things I Believe About Software Engineering by imgabe on Monday February 03, 2020 @05:46AM (#22223036)
The difference is measuring and quantification. Engineering means you know, or can estimate, a load and perform calculations to see if your design meets that load.

Most food order apps seem to be more like, eyeball it, slap something together, then it works until it doesn't, at which point you figure out a fix. That works for a while until something else breaks, so you patch a fix into that. Ad infinitum.

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Re:Things I Believe About Software Engineering by BigJono on Monday February 03, 2020 @06:01AM (#22223108)
Funny you mention food order apps. UberEats web app is my prime example of how a flaming train wreck can make you a ludicrous amount of money, and how there's almost no correlation between engineering quality (not necessarily product quality) and revenue.
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Re:Things I Believe About Software Engineering by tatersolid on Monday February 03, 2020 @07:26AM (#22223540)
Uber loses fantastic, mind-bending amounts of money every quarter. Their apps don’t “make money.”
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Re:Things I Believe About Software Engineering by exdsq on Monday February 03, 2020 @07:23AM (#22223535)
> there's almost no correlation between engineering quality (not necessarily product quality) and revenue.

Agreed. Sadly I'm much more interested in engineering quality than revenue..

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