Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?

Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by jacknews on Monday June 03, 2024 @08:20AM (#40561963)

"Software around the world is engineered - it just often isn't in California."

Can you explain the difference between 'engineered' software, and the rest? I mean other than being created by someone with an engineering certificate or whatever.

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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by joseda-hg on Monday June 03, 2024 @09:46AM (#40562585)

I'm no defender of Degrees as a mark of quality

But, for me it implies that it gets Planned and Worked on formally like other engineering projects, Lists of Requierements, Detailed Propossals, Design documents, BOM's ,Gantt Charts, the whole shebang

The alternative being the ultra lean SV style, where a project is lucky if even the public facing documentation is not at least N-months out of date

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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by whstl on Monday June 03, 2024 @01:04PM (#40564682)

Having any documentation it's pretty much a miracle.

Normally in startups it is very common to have the only available documentation be the code itself.

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