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Re:Is engineering management bullshit? on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @10:34AM (#32751178)
RTFA before commenting please

Your comment added nothing because it was responding to a straw man rather than the article itself.

Because giving them a say has caused massive inequality and the loss of billions of dollars in wealth?
That seems more like a values thing than a process thing. I doubt that this process would produce terrible work conditions if Amazon actually cared about their employees well-being.
Re:Breaks Observed in Rover Wheel Treads on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @11:45AM (#13931830)
Use the right tool for the job. Risk profiles between web app software and rover software are totally different.
Re:Too Many People Are Going to New Zealand on Friday March 17, 2017 @07:05PM (#13898740)
Is travel a Veblen good for the average tourist to New Zealand?
Re:Why Do Anything? A Meditation on Procrastination on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @04:27PM (#12551904)
What's the connection between hard and virtuous?
Re:Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (2011) on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @03:47PM (#12551588)
Are certification, accountability, and unions really the defining characteristics of engineering?

Directly from wikipedia: In 1960, the Conference of Engineering Societies of Western Europe and the United States of America defined "professional engineer" as follows:

A professional engineer is competent by virtue of his/her fundamental education and training to apply the scientific method and outlook to the analysis and solution of engineering problems. He/she is able to assume personal responsibility for the development and application of engineering science and knowledge, notably in research, design, construction, manufacturing, superintending, managing and in the education of the engineer. His/her work is predominantly intellectual and varied and not of a routine mental or physical character. It requires the exercise of original thought and judgement and the ability to supervise the technical and administrative work of others. His/her education will have been such as to make him/her capable of closely and continuously following progress in his/her branch of engineering science by consulting newly published works on a worldwide basis, assimilating such information and applying it independently. He/she is thus placed in a position to make contributions to the development of engineering science or its applications. His/her education and training will have been such that he/she will have acquired a broad and general appreciation of the engineering sciences as well as thorough insight into the special features of his/her own branch. In due time he/she will be able to give authoritative technical advice and to assume responsibility for the direction of important tasks in his/her branch.

I don't see anything about unions in there

Re:Storemapper: Bootstrapped to $50k/year in 2 years on Monday August 11, 2014 @04:18PM (#8165048)
Check out http://www.startupbook.net/, it talks in detail about how to find your niche.
Re:They're Made out of Meat on Friday August 08, 2014 @11:20AM (#8153212)
See http://www.reddit.com/r/hfy for more stories with a similar tack
Re:Stellar on Thursday July 31, 2014 @01:30PM (#8115583)
kai :)
Re:The Year of Dressing Formally (2008) on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @04:43PM (#5782629)
This professor works at a private college in Michigan called Hope College, from what I can tell he is not subsisting on taxpayer money.
Re:Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser. on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @08:05PM (#2558518)
Gets stuck at "Freeing unused Kernel memory: 124k freed" on my Cr-48...
Re:Hacker Typer - now you can type like a hacker in movies on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @12:17PM (#2485903)
'i' will put you in insert mode, which should let most keypresses passthrough

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Re:Shorter yellow lights boost red-light camera revenue on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @12:24PM (#1148487)
Great example of a terrible incentive structure. Obviously, no city should rely on tickets for revenue, but I imagine it is more politically viable to increase ticket revenue than property tax revenue.
Re:Will a Space Cannon Fuel the Next Moon Landing? on Friday January 29, 2010 @01:41AM (#1085982)
Ah okay, thanks for the explanation.
Re:Will a Space Cannon Fuel the Next Moon Landing? on Friday January 29, 2010 @01:15AM (#1085952)
How could you use this for manned flight? Assuming a (best-case) linear acceleration, accelerating to 25000 mph over 1 km would be 12736 g.
Re:Where can I get unbiased news? on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @07:17PM (#1066212)
I'm surprised The Atlantic didn't make it on that list. I always see it mentioned in the same breath as the other sources and have found most of the articles fairly unbiased and interesting.
Re:The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia on Thursday November 26, 2009 @01:25AM (#962355)
The Back to the Future Timeline was removed, but the diagram can be found in the discussion section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Back_to_the_Future_(film_s...

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