amusingly "software engineering" was coined by margaret hamilton frustrated over low prestige of NASA programmers compared to hardware teams
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Partly explains the disdain I got from the scholarship board at my HS when I said I wanted to be a programmer. "Not a profession, then?"
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Graduated 1980.
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Engineering is a level of suffering which no one should endure
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Also, Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
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breaking out the physicist would be useful here, too
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So that second 10% drop after 1997 must be because of the founding of
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Ha ha ha ha. Wow that's a smart take on things.
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It's not tho, read replies. Correlation and causation are not the same.
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Which reply mentioned causation?
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"engineering" is an unwarranted and harmful narrowing of the scope of a field with a strong theoretical component tho
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"Computer Science" was considered an engineering degree as early as 1975 when I started, and even earlier at many schools
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alternative: "fields that tend to interest women more than CS (e.g., people-oriented ones) became more open to them" http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exaggerated-differences/ …
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Many people who work in CS these don't have degrees...lots of them come out of the code schools...
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If the differences are all because of natural biology, then why do they change so much over time?
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If historical/cultural/social forces play a large role, what is wrong with working for change?
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who are you asking this and why
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