Comment on If Programmers are wizards then what are Computer Architects?

ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• XiELEd@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Hmm… What about Computer Engineers?

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  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Most computer engineers are only engineers in the original sense of railway engineer: they throw coal in the fire to run the engine.

    Real engineers (with an engineering degree) are called “senior software engineer”

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They don’t know how to lay bricks either.

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    personally, it means i’m allowed to build hardware. not that i could, because nobody wants that so i have no experience in it, but i’m allowed to.

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