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A comment on Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (2011).

Re:Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice... by ku-man on Thursday August 19, 2021 @12:08PM (#28235618)
The author of this blog post uses the words engineer and engineering way too haphazardly. In my opinion, calling yourself engineer, when you are not a registered one, is a disservice to the actual engineers (that have to pass technical and ethical exams)
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Re:Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice... by bickeringyokel on Thursday August 19, 2021 @12:44PM (#28236092)
Conversely, engineers can be "registered" and relegated to other adjacent roles because their credentials have been eclipsed by their lack of meaningful experience, and their ideas are no better than the smart programmers in the room. So I do understand the haphazardness to a degree, anyone can engineer, but not everyone can be an engineer.
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Re:Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice... by yellowapple on Thursday August 19, 2021 @04:21PM (#28238875)
That's exactly why I don't call myself an "engineer" beyond whatever formal title some employer might assign to me.
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