In your opinion what’s the difference between the two? In my opinion both terms are frequently used interchangeably in the workplace.
But I’d like to consider myself as an engineer, because although I don’t consider myself to be good at it, I think I cares about the software that I worked on, its interaction with other services, the big picture, and different kinds of small optimizations.
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Do engineers take some sort of hippocratic oath?
Of course we don’t, otherwise social media/tobacco/petroleum industries wouldn’t exist.
Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin, author of several foundational texts, and coauthor of the agile manifesto provides one, which I think is good: https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2015/11/18/TheProgrammersOath.html
Very intersting! I’m not so sure about the oathiness of:
But I think the real oath impact there is:
In Government work that, ^, is considered career ending.
I will improve upon this, thanks for the awareness.