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Cowboy Engineers in the Software Industry

posted by janrinok on Sunday March 02 2014, @07:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the was-it-much-harder-in-my-day? dept.

shabadoo writes:

"Will software engineering always be a cowboy's game? Or is it just a case of when you're a passionate expert the pimples stand out more clearly. This guy has clearly had enough. His vents are amusing, but also raise some good points about the state of the industry."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Taco Cowboy on Sunday March 02 2014, @09:33PM

    by Taco Cowboy (3489) on Sunday March 02 2014, @09:33PM (#9856)

    ... there are code monkeys.

    Those who can't do math are, IMHO, lower than the code monkeys.

    Learning math don't only land you math ability, but also the ability to think logically, and logic is what makes programming possible.

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  • (Score: 1) by L5GwL on Sunday March 02 2014, @10:00PM

    by L5GwL (1751) on Sunday March 02 2014, @10:00PM (#9869)

    And yet I still meet people who studied mathematics but are unable to think logically outside that domain, and people who studied philosophy and are quite competent at logical thinking across many domains.

  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 02 2014, @10:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 02 2014, @10:05PM (#9872)

    Welcome, Taco Cowboy! Glad to see you posting unrelated comments to the first post here just as you do on Slashdot. It's such a clever trick...

  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Sunday March 02 2014, @11:56PM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Sunday March 02 2014, @11:56PM (#9895)

    ... there are the pedants.

    To learn math, you must first learn to count. To start with, "math" is singular.

    http://www.learnersdictionary.com/blog.php?action= ViewBlogArticle&ba_id=26 [learnersdictionary.com]

    • (Score: 1) by janrinok on Monday March 03 2014, @05:36AM

      by janrinok (52) on Monday March 03 2014, @05:36AM (#9961) Journal

      That might be the case in the USA, but in the UK it is most certainly called 'maths', a contraction of the word mathematics. I cannot find the work mathematic (sing) in the dictionary. Nor can the US spell checker that I used for editing the article.

      We are not all Americans - this, fortunately, a very international site.

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      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @09:24AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @09:24AM (#10022)

        Except Taco Cowboy used "math" but then used a third-person plural conjugation. Maybe you should work on your reading comprehension before pedanting?

        • (Score: 1) by janrinok on Monday March 03 2014, @10:53AM

          by janrinok (52) on Monday March 03 2014, @10:53AM (#10056) Journal

          I am replying to hemocyanin who used the term 'math'.

          In British English, unlike US English, there is no such word - regardless of any conjugation used. The only contraction of the word 'mathematics' is maths. It is always written that way in the UK.

          Reading comprehension does not come into it. There is, to us, simply no such word. One cannot 'comprehend' words that do not exist.

          Unlike myself, you would be invaluable as part of the Editorial team. Seriously, please join us.

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @11:59AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @11:59AM (#10091)

            Yes they used the term that Taco Cowboy did. This is what I told you.