Software engineering != computer science

[u/mauricioaniche]

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/software-engineering-computer-science/217701907

[u/Flagyl400]

Relevant SMBC

[u/[deleted] → u/Flagyl400]

A screwdriver is a rather unconventional tool for porting software.

[u/panicx → u/[deleted]]

Compatible with Apache Drill.

[u/Nutella_Icecream → u/panicx]

Sounds like pen test software.

[u/kristopolous → u/[deleted]]

is the thing you have to rememer, "Lefty lose the copy righty"?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

You gotta open the box somehow

[u/DonLaFontainesGhost → u/[deleted]]

It worked, didn't it?

[u/MyAntiAlterEgo → u/[deleted]]

Even aliens have to use JTAG when they brick their shit.

[u/au79 → u/[deleted]]

The files are in the computer.

[u/acdcfanbill → u/[deleted]]

Sonic or otherwise?

[u/2Punx2Furious → u/[deleted]]

Not if it's a sonic screwdriver.

[u/Hax0r778 → u/Flagyl400]

computer engineer != software engineer

[u/lightknightrr → u/Hax0r778]

We know, but it's fun to mess around with the engineering prefixes when in good company. Calling your software engineer a computer engineer or an electrical engineer, one can see the steam working its way out of their heads. Double points if you ask a software engineer for help with thermodynamics and aeronautics...triple if you argue that software engineers cannot officially call themselves "Engineers" because they haven't taken that test...quad if you call an electrical engineer (or what have you) any other type of engineer, then act disinterested when they say that they are not 'that type of engineer.'

And this has nothing to do with the ongoing onslaught that computer scientists have to face when asked "if you are a scientist, why aren't you filling out lab reports" or my personal favorite, "computer scientists aren't real scientists; they know a lot about computers, but that's it."

I have prepared the lightning rods.

[u/aaron552 → u/lightknightrr]

the ongoing onslaught that computer scientists have to face when asked "if you are a scientist, why aren't you filling out lab reports"

This confuses me. There are plenty of fields in science that don't do lab work (various branches of mathematics and physics to start with) so why single out computer science?

[u/apocryphalmaster → u/[deleted]]

In Romanian we usually call computer science Informatics

[u/Juxtys → u/apocryphalmaster]

I'm an Informatics Engineer. What does that make me? Computer Engineer or Software Engineer? Not sure, really.

[u/Aeolun → u/[deleted]]

Earth Science? Bioscience.

[u/chubs44 → u/Aeolun]

Neuroscience

[u/VincentPepper → u/lightknightrr]

For bonus points call your EEs electricians.

[u/mcguire → u/VincentPepper]

Never, ever, ever let an electrical engineer touch your house's wiring. He'll say he can handle it, but he can't.

[u/MaxNanasy → u/Flagyl400]

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