Re:Aging programmer
by ecpottinger on Saturday September 24, 2022 @02:40PM
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The difference, an engineer is told what to build and tries to do that.
A programmer is told what to do, and half way thru development they have the boss show up and say 'I just read of this brilliant idea in BusinessWeek, lets add/change the code to do .....".
Re:Aging programmer
by collyw on Sunday September 25, 2022 @06:41AM
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Except it's usually more "I just read about fantastic technology X, we need to use that". Ignoring the actually problems we have and whether technology X will solve them in any way at all.
A programmer is told what to do, and half way thru development they have the boss show up and say 'I just read of this brilliant idea in BusinessWeek, lets add/change the code to do .....".