Not only does this meme ignore the fact there’s only 4 choices in Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, it doesn’t even do an even number of them leaving it annoyingly lopsided
Should have gone with something like “HaxorMaster1447”
I have always considered myself an engineer because I’m part of a multidisciplinary engineering organization designing a physical product that has embedded software. And “engineer” is the word at the end of my degrees, I guess.
But if somebody called me by any of those terms in the OP I would answer. And if somebody who works on an app or a video game calls themselves an engineer, it wouldn’t raise an eyebrow.
My only conclusion is that we here, who spend our days specifying exactly what we want computers to do, are not so great specifying ourselves exactly.
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”.
Has there been a programmer for anything other than a computer
Television programming? It’s a stretch, one might say a broad-casting of the term.
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.
Yes. And, by the way, “computer” was once the name of a profession, carried out by people.
angry domino logic programmer noises
Do you program domino logic on a electric board or on a computer?
That’s funny, plain “programmer” would be my preferred term if it weren’t for the fact that non-tech folks think it sounds like menial work. I’ve landed on “software engineer” because that’s what my employer calls me and other people seem to understand a little bit, too.
Here in Canada you can’t call yourself an engineer unless you are a qualified and licensed engineer. So most people have to call themselves “developer”. When you see someone calling themselves a software engineer it should mean something.
I was hired with the official title “software engineer,” then I was noted in all unofficial org charts as a “SE/DE” (software engineer/data engineer), and recently my boss announced that I have had my title officially changed to “data engineer”. My job functions have not changed the entire time I’ve been here. I write Python, SQL, KQL and Pyspark scripts and have to fuck around with Azure architecture sometimes. So there’s not always clear delineation between these terms, anyway.
I was hired as a Developer and a month or two in they changed our titles to Software Engineer because “It sounds better.” I’d have to say I agree!
Lol, are you me? Job application said software engineer. 3 months after I was hired, it changed to data engineer with no changes to the work I do. I wasn’t even notified, just noticed on a random day that the role on my profile on Teams had changed. I also do Python, SQL, and Pyspark scripts, but use AWS instead.
Tech-priest.
Arch-Magos.
Or, if necessary, Señor Arch-Magos.
All praise the holy omnissiah, so on, and so forth.
My email signature is “Via con dios”
Claro que sí, con gusto, y por supuesto.
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ViaVaya con dios”Or… was that… the joke?
Dale?
I can neither confirm nor deny.
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Employed
Remember when they tried to make ninja, Rockstar, and guru a thing?
Ow God I just cringed so hard I partly digested my skin. All those wacky Microsoft conferences. I’ve never felt so infantalised.
Microsoft still uses those phrases un-ironically all the time.
Dev.
Not a programmer. I’m a net admin.
Actually my title is “Senior Network Architect”. I hate it. I feel like it detracts from real architects, who have licensure and actual training from an actual school.
I hate it as an architect, and I hated it as an “engineer”, for the same reason.
Yes, there’s a lot of complexity and planning, especially at larger scales. But it’s mostly self-taught, some webinars, and a lot of on-the-job (read: trial-by-fire) training.
When it comes to telling computers what to do, I have no idea what to call it. I write Python scripts and Ansible modules, I guess. That doesn’t make me any of those titles though. Some times I poor-mans deamonize my scripts (while true loop) and pack them in a container.
Using some of the same tools doesn’t make me any more of the same title.
I’ve set my role on my company’s slack profile as “code connoisseur”
Surely that is reserved for QA!
Krep check!
I’ve had so many wacky job titles that at this point i dont care as long as i get paid.
I put “Chaotic Neutral Technomancer” as my title at work and HR said I had to change it.
“coder-codewriter”
I would prefer that I was not referred to at all. Especially if you are a PM.
I know a guy who just says he stacks shelves at Tesco as he cannot be bothred to explain 😂
I used to work for Cisco (the huge router etc. company) but my mom thought I was working for Sysco (the food services supply company). She was very surprised to learn that I had anything at all to do with computers.
Oh wow I just now realized they were two different companies. I thought it was just one really really diversified company 🤣
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