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Re:Resisting Cognitive Surrender by Betelbuddy on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:59AM (#50349296)
There is no such thing as a Software Engineer.

Its just as much as an ego trip...as the Principal Engineers that roam around here, after they survived three layoffs and outputted front end code for six years straight at a FAANG...

Prove me wrong...

Re:Resisting Cognitive Surrender by gauntr on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @04:08AM (#50349717)
"Margaret Hamilton popularized and coined the term 'software engineering' to give the discipline the same legitimacy as hardware engineering".

But oh well, who was she, just the engineer who wrote the software for the Apollo 11. Probably she had no idea what she was talking about.

/s

Re:Resisting Cognitive Surrender by lioeters on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:42AM (#50350311)
That's new to me, I didn't know she coined the term. She's the first true "software engineer" then, I suppose. I remember her from that historic photo where she's standing next to a pile of code printed out, a stack talled than her.

Not to be confused with Margaret Hamilton the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West in the film The Wizard of Oz.