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Re:Programmers should not call themselves engineers (2015) by throwawaaarrgh on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @02:10AM (#37232381)
guess I'll start adding "Doctor" before my name now. if anyone questions it I'll say it has a different meaning when I use it
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Re:Programmers should not call themselves engineers (2015) by kgeist on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @02:16AM (#37232410)
Etymologically, "engineer" originally meant "one who designs, constructs, or operates military works for attack or defence".

I guess at some point some folks were also grumpy that the word was generalized to people who had no relation to military :)

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Re:Programmers should not call themselves engineers (2015) by z3dd on Friday August 25, 2023 @04:42AM (#37259489)
it's a thing already https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy
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