This is a new satire site, right? These days it’s getting harder and harder to differentiate between reality and fiction in tech. The rest of their posts are pretty much spot on.
Reality in Canada.
You can be web dev with an engineering degree
The name of the website is a play on the satire website the onion, it’s satire.
Thanks, I didn’t even notice. It’s not a normal decision that would be made, but sometimes there’s weird stuff buried deep in the paperwork.
I don’t take any article post or comment seriously anymore. Between the era of misinformation and advancements in AI, my trust in the internet is at an all time low.
Make your own decisions, second guess everything
The only real software engineer anymore is Linus Torvalds, everyone else stands on the shoulders of giants.
Like… every engineer?
Honestly, nobody should call themselves an engineer unless they literally drive trains for a living.
Driving a train is engineering?
In North America, the driver of a train engine is called an “engineer”, yes.
I see, TIL. That’s different from Germany, where Ingenieur is a protected term.
In the railway context an engineer was the person who worked the engine.
In German the word comes from Latin roughly meaning inventor. Presumably the general usage of the word engineer in English has the same etymology.
- intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 7•1 year ago
See I’d call that a conductor
In the US, a conductor is the one who checks tickets, makes announcements, and delegates tasks to the crew to help ensure things keep moving on time.
The locomotive engineer is the one who is “driving” the train. They run the engine and communicate with dispatch and traffic control to keep them informed where this particular train is fitting into the overall juggling act,. They also make every effort to keep things safe (watching for signals, obstructions, etc.).
I’m not 100% sure if the terminology is different outside of the Us.
(Source: My father is a 3rd generation locomotive engineer.)
See I thought a conductor was a person who grabs a live main wire while standing in water.
Funny and infromative
In many countries the term “engineer” is a protected title.
Yes, driving trains is becoming more and more important as we find out how terrible cars are for the environment. We should protect the profession fiercely!
Or they build trebuchets
they should also ban web developers who refer to themselves as ninjas, especially code ninjas
Ninjas, super-heroes, black-belt and terms like that are known gender-excluders. I’ve been through a couple of adjustment sessions for company standard job descriptions and it’s unreal how you can change the applicant mix by wording.
What if you do it ironically? Like calling yourself a Code Ninja Jedi 10x Rockstar 🚀?
I have a CS Masters degree and it says engineer on it.
There is a difference between Computer Science and >!web development!< though.
I mean who cares? But also why? My old job title was “software engineer” and I just did web dev.
As long as they don’t start building tunnels under their house because they’re an ‘engineer’…
Nobody give them stamps!
🎶 … trust me, Im an engineer I think I put this thing right here … 🎶
I get this is satire but people truly believe this. Web devs literally create software that runs nearly every facet of modern life.
I mean, engineering is really problem solving, and not do we web developers solve problems. We may have made most of them ourselves, and new ones when we solve those, but we do solve problems.
The term engineering is not about problem-solving, especially when differentiated from development. Engineering is about deliberate understanding and decision-making, about giving it an architecture, a structure.
You can develop without any structure, solving an issue, without understanding a bigger context or picture or behavior. But that’s not engineering.
- intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 5•1 year ago
Engineering is the use of scientific knowledge to achieve specific goals.
Now this is the kind of ‘news’ I’d like to see posted on hackernews just to read their techbro shit takes.
@LinearArray Deleted Tinder around a week ago.
It used to be really good back in 2012-2014 but not anymore I think.
Try fetlife
@ILikeBoobies
Interesting 😄
What if my job title says that? Who’s going to tell my employer they’re wrong.
Then again, “full stack software engineer” as a title might also well just be buzzwords.
!And yes, I know the site is satire lol.!<
- intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year ago
Unless you know what “full stack” means.
I have a CS Masters degree and it says engineer on it.
This is not a new kind of policy for Tinder. In the past, PhDs in Social Sciences were banned for impersonating ‘doctors’.
How were they impersonating doctors? How does Tinder verify any of these claims?
First of all, it’s a pretty obvious joke.
In this case, the joke is: “people with a PhD are doctors. It’s a doctorate. But the field of social sciences is not real science, and thus shouldn’t count as a doctorate.”
I get the joke, what I don’t get is how one can impersonate a doctor on Tinder. Are people wearing lab coats in their pictures or something?
The joke isn’t that they’re impersonating a medical professional. It’s that they’re impersonating the title of “doctor” by claiming a PhD. Someone with an Art History PhD is a doctor, but the joke here is that they aren’t really deserving of that title.
Dude, I get the bloody joke!
I’m very specifically asking how they are impersonating it on Tinder. Is it a picture? Is there a field in Tinder you can fill out with your job title? Do they write it in the description?
And I’m asking how Tinder is verifying that.
Is there a field in Tinder you can fill out with your job title?
Yes
And I’m asking how Tinder is verifying that.
They’re not. It’s fake
Oh, I see now. It’s a satire article! Given I don’t use Tinder and have seen exclusive dating apps, it really wasn’t far-fetched.
Thanks for clearing that up.
And this why i aim to get a PhD.
So you can get banned from Tinder for impersonating a doctor?
(I too have a PhD. I feel your pain)
- intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 3•1 year ago
A player hater’s degree? Oh hell yeah!
I just want to get a PhD so I can start my mad science career on the right foot.