Re:CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail...
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Sunday August 11, 2024 @12:58PM
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I prefer to call it "computer programming." If the title is good enough for Ken Thompson or Don Knuth then it's good enough for me.
Re:CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail...
by wizzwizz4 on Sunday August 11, 2024 @01:08PM
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> I don't want to keep everyone out except just those who happen to have just the right mind set.
Neither do I. Neither did Dijkstra. EWD1036, “On the cruelty of really teaching computing science”, is about education reform, to enable those who don't "happen to have just the right mind set" to fully participate in actual, effective programming.
Re:CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail...
by WarOnPrivacy on Sunday August 11, 2024 @02:03PM
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> If that means we don't get to call ourselves "engineers", I'm good with that.
I suspect this particular title-exaggeration is fueling this particular fire.
Going forward, I believe we need to be aware that software controlled mechanics grew out of two disparate disciplines; it presently lacks the holistic thinking that long-integrated industries do.
Some pieces are more important than others. Those are the bits that need to be carefully regulated, as if they were bridges. But not everything we build has lives on the line.
If that means we don't get to call ourselves "engineers", I'm good with that. We work with bits, not atoms, and we can develop our own new way of handling that.