XiELEd@piefed.social to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoIf Programmers are wizards then what are Computer Architects?message-squaremessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up161arrow-down13
arrow-up158arrow-down1message-squareIf Programmers are wizards then what are Computer Architects?XiELEd@piefed.social to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squareExtremeDullard@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-24 days agoComputer architects are like real architects: they’re paid more to design buildings but they don’t know how to lay bricks.
minus-squareXiELEd@piefed.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 days agoHmm… What about Computer Engineers?
minus-squareExtremeDullard@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·4 days agoMost computer engineers are only engineers in the original sense of railway engineer: they throw coal in the fire to run the engine. Real engineers (with an engineering degree) are called “senior software engineer”
minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agoThey don’t know how to lay bricks either.
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 days agopersonally, it means i’m allowed to build hardware. not that i could, because nobody wants that so i have no experience in it, but i’m allowed to.
Computer architects are like real architects: they’re paid more to design buildings but they don’t know how to lay bricks.
Hmm… What about Computer Engineers?
Most computer engineers are only engineers in the original sense of railway engineer: they throw coal in the fire to run the engine.
Real engineers (with an engineering degree) are called “senior software engineer”
They don’t know how to lay bricks either.
personally, it means i’m allowed to build hardware. not that i could, because nobody wants that so i have no experience in it, but i’m allowed to.