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icedcoffee , in As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs

If you call a dev a programmer and they don’t get huffy they are hands down one of the raddest people you’ll ever meet.

LouNeko , in As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs

A “good girl”

ThatFembyWho ,

Wtf. I came here to make this same comment.

Thought I’d be super clever haha. Take my upvote instead

humbletightband , in As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs

I only want to be called darling. Or a filthy worm, depending on the situation

ThatFembyWho ,

Filthy darling

MIDItheKID , in As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs

I put “Chaotic Neutral Technomancer” as my title at work and HR said I had to change it.

orphiebaby ,

Damn that HR!

Asudox , in As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs
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Dev.

drathvedro , in As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs

The Intergalactic Ninja Sultan of Revenue Development

nelly_man , in As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs

I prefer Software Engineer, mostly because I studied at an engineering school and have a degree in Software Engineering. My actual titles have varied throughout my career, but I overall consider myself a software engineer.

DAMunzy ,

I’m curious if you’ve looked up whether you’re allowed to call yourself an engineer in some states (US centric of course)? I read years ago that some states really frown on calling yourself an engineer if you aren’t a certain small range of engineers that they have codified (pun intended) in law.

Sweetpeaches69 ,

I think that’s only a civil engineering thing.

Source: work in the industry, and “Civil Engineer” and “Professional Engineer” are legally protected titles. Other than that, it’s fair game. Like, there are “Design Engineers” in the civil sector that don’t have their Professional Engineer certification.

emberwit ,

In Germany the title engineer is protected by law but with a computer science degree you may call yourself an engineer.

Sweetpeaches69 ,

Oh, wow, TIL.

AA5B ,

Same. My current role is most accurately DeOps or DevSecOps - my education actually predates “Software Engineer” but it was a Software degree from an Engineering school, and with a more technical focus than the similar degree from Arts and Sciences. But yes, every time I due process improvement, standards and practices, etc, that makes it “Software Engineer”. And every time I have to explain to developers how their stuff works, yes, I’m “The Engineer”, capitalized

Kolanaki , in As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs
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The Plague.

citrusface ,

Uh… Mr. The Plague… Uh. Something weird is happening on the net…

FluffyPotato , in As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs

I have rotated between countless titles over several decades. What I do hasn’t really changed. Currently I’m not even aware what my official title is and when someone asks I usually say something along the lines of I make IT go but in my native language.

zarkanian , in As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs
@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works avatar

Hackerman

southernwolf , in The simplest mistakes happen to the best of us
@southernwolf@pawb.social avatar

I’m not sure I understand, what’s wrong with this commit?

mexicancartel ,

1 change, forgot to enable the setting previously

Simon , in As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs

Space wizard will do thanks

Amaltheamannen , in The simplest mistakes happen to the best of us

What am I looking at?

malloc , (edited )

Whoever committed this change thinks updating the text on the UI for this system will automagically fix issue.

It’s like editing the HTML on your bank’s website to show you have $1B in the bank 😂

Issue here committer forgot to update UI to expose the feature person was working on

victorz ,

I’m not convinced that’s it, but I don’t know enough to explain why.

Amaltheamannen ,

Yeah without more context it just seemed they were renaming the setting as part of a larger diff

Aatube OP ,

It says "1 changed file..." at the top

Aatube OP ,

No, the settings already existed, they just forgot to expose it

malloc ,

That makes sense now. Thanks for extra context.

Aatube OP ,

(Here's some more context: The button is in the UI, but it exposed a completely different function than advertised, probably due to being generated from copy-and-pasting the previous button)

crispy_kilt , in As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs

I make computers do useful things.

MajorHavoc ,

I make computers do useful things.

This exactly. Sometimes I also make the computer do what the client asked for.

Edit: And there was that one time the client asked for the computer to do something useful. But I think that was a fluke.

crispy_kilt , in As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs

Serious question, not a native speaker: Why do people in the Anglosphere refer to mostly-software companies as tech companies, or to software developers as tech workers?

Simon ,

Because even in those companies many of the ‘computer people’ are not software developers. Tech workers is a catch all term for most people at those companies.

crispy_kilt ,

But the term isn’t used for technology outside of software companies, for example, mechanical and electrical engineering

Simon ,

There’s tech companies that don’t work with software

crispy_kilt ,

Such as?

Simon ,

Anything hardware related that doesn’t program in-house, by definition.

Nath ,
@Nath@aussie.zone avatar

Tech is short-hand for technology.
So, technology companies and technology workers.

emberwit ,

But the question was why

crispy_kilt ,

Thanks for responding but that wasn’t the question

Machinists / mechanical engineering are technology workers, so are civil engineers, electrical engineers, etc, but only software gets called “tech”

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