“I think what turns engineers off is how pretentious Twitter seems,”
I can't speak for everyone, but I use Twitter in a similar way I'd use an RSS reader, so most of my timeline is companies or organizations. I have some friends on there, but none of them ever seem pretentious to be on there.
However, this article sounded very pretentious. Again, TFA:
“It’s a time issue,” agrees BSEE Tim Schneider, a senior staff applications engineer. “Engineers generally don’t have a lot of it. Our work is very focused and requires a lot of brainpower to get the job done.”
disclaimer - I got to this article via a Slashdot tweet, and I am an engineer:)
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This is not a direct answer to your question, but I must add that Brian Koberlein has a fantastic blog about astronomy and astrophysics.
https://briankoberlein.com/
In particular, his series of posts on dark matter were (IMO) one of the most informative I've read
https://briankoberlein.com/201...
The title definitely sounds like an Onion article
From TFA:
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“I think what turns engineers off is how pretentious Twitter seems,”
I can't speak for everyone, but I use Twitter in a similar way I'd use an RSS reader, so most of my timeline is companies or organizations. I have some friends on there, but none of them ever seem pretentious to be on there.
However, this article sounded very pretentious. Again, TFA:
“It’s a time issue,” agrees BSEE Tim Schneider, a senior staff applications engineer. “Engineers generally don’t have a lot of it. Our work is very focused and requires a lot of brainpower to get the job done.”
disclaimer - I got to this article via a Slashdot tweet, and I am an engineer
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