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From Slashdot Technology Story | How Software Engineering Differs From Computer Science

Before we get all sweaty about terms (Score:5, Funny)

by symbolset (646467) on Saturday June 06, @02:38AM (#28230631)
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If you’re an X Certified Y Engineer, you’re a technician.

If you can be counted on to design a system that reliably works without killing people, you’re an engineer.

If you can observe phenomena, reliably document previously unobserved phenomena, and from that produce useful but not mathematically precise practices or products you’re a scientist.

If you can gather observed facts into a sheaf of postulates and a system of symbols that can predict unobserved phenomena, you’re a mathematician.

If you can’t do any of the above, you can always check bags at LAX for $150K a year.

If you can’t get bags from the trunk to the belt, you might consider a position in middle management.

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