software is eating the substance of words like "build", "engineer", and "utility" etc
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2023
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increasingly attracted to making "engineer" a more widely protected term
As I've mentioned before, software "engineering" all too often produces the digital equivalent of the First Tay Bridge.
But then, I've had a reverse snobbery about the term "engineer" for several years and it still chagrins me that my job title includes the word when I'm really a technician.
This is why I think Henry Petroski’s To Engineer Is Human should be required reading for anyone in software
Sorry, I shouldn’t respond with a link to a one hour video. But it’s Alan Kay.
nah, I’ve got a YouTube video for this exact thread and it’s only 4 hours long is already an awful.systems tradition
I would say my main question about “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” an essay by the prominent venture-capitalist Marc Andreessen, is whether or not the goatse was intentional.
The lack of ring makes it point to no. Clearly Marc is not a man of culture.
Enjoying the subtle nod to goatse here