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If real engineers were anything like us software "engineers", there would be building falling every minute, every other plane would explode midflight, and people would be getting impaled by collapsing bicycle frames. We're not engineers. We're not artists either. We're unlicensed car mechanics at best.
My sister got me some stickers as a birthday present but she didn't know where to buy them. So she painted a g...
Another programming job: the first 5,183 decimals of pi, in wood sticks. Took me three months to do. Now I sta...
Hahaha....... UGHH
Just because you have no idea what you are doing does not make you an artist.
So can we please treat software development as engineering?
I get that in software there are a lot of unknowns and you won't always find best practices, especially if you want to be a pioneer on the bleeding edge.
Yet maybe that issue you were trying to solve with your hackish -- I mean artfully -- solution is a lack of understanding of the basic technology?
If you want to do art, try poetry.
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