being able to pull something off by cowboy hacking is the kind of feeling of power you get from being able to walk a tightrope being able to do anything worth calling software engineering is the kind of feeling of power you get from being able to build a bridge
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Replying to @chaosprime
this is a good tweet and is a distinction I didn't properly understand until several years into my working career. I was calling myself a software engineer long before I deserved to.
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Replying to @danlistensto
me too, but i was pressured into it by a boss who hoped that calling me that would encourage me to be one instead of a coder so i don't feel bad
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Replying to @chaosprime @danlistensto
of course he also didn't ever want me to budget any time to write tests so i don't know what the hell he thought a software engineer was, at the end of the day
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Replying to @chaosprime @danlistensto
gotta love a good cargo cult i refuse to call myself one in interviews until i've made something that could kill people if it breaks
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Replying to @djmicrobeads @chaosprime
most software isn't a life-or-death thing though. the bridge engineering analogy shouldn't be taken too literally.
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
yeah uhhh the fact that i make hyperbolic statements like that is a pretty obvious sign of my immaturity
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Don't worry, the fact that the system we live in is massively interdependent all but guarantees you will write something that kills people if it breaks eventually.
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probably the sensible response is write guidance software for smart bombs so that your software kills people even when it's working perfectly
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I knew a guy who was involved in the JDAM program actually. As you might have expected, he utterly despised all human life, especially his own.
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the things people do for money lol
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