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The Life of a Software Engineer
Jonathan Wise writes to share with us an interesting bit of prose describing life as a software engineer. "I am, in the States, known as a Software Engineer. In Canada we're not allowed to call ourselves engineers, although the discipline is no less rigorous than any other kind of engineering. But perhaps its for the best, because 'engineering' describes only a part of what I do. A software developer must be part writer and poet, part salesperson and public speaker, part artist and designer, and always equal parts logic and empathy."
Life? We don't have a life!
Oh? Your wall has fallen down? That just seems to happens sometimes. Well, just push it up, go outside your house and come back in. Hopefully it won't happen again.
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"I want to be an engineer, sex can wait !" -- and this sums up the life of an engineer...
A software developer must be part writer and poet, part salesperson and public speaker, part artist and designer, and always equal parts logic and empathy.
....insert sad violin music here.... :(
Would that mean java programmers are baristas?
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No, the baristas didn't want their title being denigrated in such a demeaning fashion.
If they engineered bridges the way they "engineer" software, they would just take parts of existing bridges plus random scraps of custom metal and concrete, duct tape it all together, and test the result to see if it crashes.
{ // no time for prose, there's software to be written.
if(article) delete [] article;
}
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So, I should cancel the order for the shareware helicopter ?
music lover since 1969
>> I'd like to point out for the record that I'm married, have one child and another on the way. This suggests that I've had sex at least twice. Actually, it suggests that your wife has had sex at least twice; it doesn't say anything about you.
That's a damn good point. If cars were as fault tolerant as users want computer programs to be, you could pour soda into the gas tank and the car would filter it out, put it in a cup, and place it in your drink holder for you. The number of strange operating conditions that software handles gracefully is extremely broad, compared to a lot of other consumer products.
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The Urban Hippie