Re:Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok
by hotpotamus on Friday August 12, 2022 @09:53AM
(#32438661)
Perhaps, but would you expect the general public to know what the initialism CCIE is, for instance? And when you say Professional Engineer, I assume it's not the kind of engineer who drives trains correct? Though I believe that is the original meaning of the word. But probably also not the kind of engineer who writes software?
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok
by evilduck on Friday August 12, 2022 @10:02AM
(#32438799)
I mean, using a search engine to figure out what a CCIE was took about 10 seconds. Searching "engineer pe" and finding a contextually relevant answer wasn't any harder. Not every comment, article or book must devolve to serve the greatest common denominator.
Re:Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok
by hotpotamus on Friday August 12, 2022 @10:06AM
(#32438855)
Well, when you know one of the words in a two word initialism, I suspect it helps the search engine quite a bit.
Re:Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok
by eternalban on Friday August 12, 2022 @11:25AM
(#32439964)
> Well, when you know one of the words in a two word initialism, I suspect it helps the search engine quite a bit.
"Most working engineers don’t even bother with a PE."
Engineer is right there, no need for you know the E of PE is for engineer.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=working+engineers+PE
https://search.brave.com/search?q=working+engineer+PE
https://www.google.com/search?q=working+engineer+PE
You are giving off troll vibes. Maybe you are in the wrong forum? HN has been called all sorts of things but never a "general public" forum. Next time, just ask if you don't know - no shame in that.
Re:Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok
by naniwaduni on Friday August 12, 2022 @12:09PM
(#32440586)
"Most working engineers don’t even bother with a Professional Engineer" doesn't really sound like a reasonable utterance unless you already know what you're trying to say.