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.

[–] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Reality in Canada.

[–] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 10 months ago

You can be web dev with an engineering degree

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 29 points 10 months ago

The name of the website is a play on the satire website the onion, it's satire.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

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[–] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The only real software engineer anymore is Linus Torvalds, everyone else stands on the shoulders of giants.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Like… every engineer?

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[–] survivalmachine 49 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Honestly, nobody should call themselves an engineer unless they literally drive trains for a living.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Driving a train is engineering?

[–] survivalmachine 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

In North America, the driver of a train engine is called an "engineer", yes.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I see, TIL. That's different from Germany, where Ingenieur is a protected term.

[–] _MusicJunkie 13 points 10 months ago

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@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

See I’d call that a conductor

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 15 points 10 months ago

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.)

[–] MiDaBa@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

See I thought a conductor was a person who grabs a live main wire while standing in water.

[–] TheLobotomist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Funny and infromative

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

they should also ban web developers who refer to themselves as ninjas, especially code ninjas

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 3 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] RonSijm@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

What if you do it ironically? Like calling yourself a Code Ninja Jedi 10x Rockstar 🚀?

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have a CS Masters degree and it says engineer on it.

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[–] rizoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 10 months ago

I mean who cares? But also why? My old job title was "software engineer" and I just did web dev.

[–] jonsnothere 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

As long as they don't start building tunnels under their house because they're an 'engineer'...

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[–] invertedspear@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

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@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Engineering is the use of scientific knowledge to achieve specific goals.

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 11 points 10 months ago

I get this is satire but people truly believe this. Web devs literally create software that runs nearly every facet of modern life.

[–] e8d79@feddit.de 9 points 10 months ago

Now this is the kind of 'news' I'd like to see posted on hackernews just to read their techbro shit takes.

[–] anders@rytter.me 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@LinearArray Deleted Tinder around a week ago.

It used to be really good back in 2012-2014 but not anymore I think.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Try fetlife

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[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.!<

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[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

I have a CS Masters degree and it says engineer on it.

[–] Granixo@feddit.cl 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

And this why i aim to get a PhD.

[–] ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

So you can get banned from Tinder for impersonating a doctor?

(I too have a PhD. I feel your pain)

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

I just want to get a PhD so I can start my mad science career on the right foot.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

A player hater’s degree? Oh hell yeah!

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 13 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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."

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[–] cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 4 points 10 months ago

While backend- and other types of software developers seem to be unaffected

What if you write backend code for web application?

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