• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I’m in tech and “computer programmer” has always sounded to me like a grandma phrase. Like how all gaming consoles are referred to as “the Nintendo” or “the game station”.

      • marcos@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Yes. And, by the way, “computer” was once the name of a profession, carried out by people.

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        2 years ago

        I remember telling my high school guidance counsellor I was planning on becoming a programmer. She looked at me, head tilted like a confused dog and asked what excited me about Event Programming (as in, planning and scheduling large in-person events).

        That was the first time someone didn’t understand what I did for work, and it was about 5 years before I started doing it.

  • d41@startrek.website
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    2 years ago

    I have the words “software engineer” in my job title but I hate it.

    We aren’t engineers, we’re a bunch of undisciplined hackers, engineers have standards and ethics.

    Programmer is my preferred term, or software developer.

    Code monkey is also acceptable.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      My doctor’s digital prescription service has been ransomwared. It’s been a few weeks, and they paid the millions of dollars in Bitcoin or whatever, but it’s still encrypted and my doctor had to write me a prescription on paper.

      The fact that a digital prescription service could have that happen is madness to me. The fact that they don’t have offline backups for prescriptions is insane. Yes, they could have been in there for a while, encrypting everything, but if the company had tested its backups they’d have found out immediately.

      All of these are things that wouldn’t have happened if computing professions were held to standards.

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    2 years ago
    • Viewport engineer.
    • Browser-space technician.
    • Microsoft painter-decorator.
    • Inferior decorator.
    • He-who-responds (on the bugs channel).
    • Scope denier.
    • Manager disappointer.