Fair.
ShrimpsIsBugs
joined 1 year ago
What's wrong with postman?
By that definition almost all people who call themselves software engineers would be wrong. That doesn't automatically mean, you're wrong though.
Personally, I disagree with your definition of software engineers needing to directly interact with hardware stuff in order to be engineers. Wikipedia defines software engineering as
the application of systematic desciplined, quantifiable approach to development, operation and maintenance of software and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering and computer science to software.
So it's all about the systematic approach to complex systems, not about whether or not you directly interact with hardware interfaces.
similar story here, just that little me wrote his snake program with windows forms because that was all I knew. Every element of the game was a button. I remember the first versions beeing so inefficient (rebuilding the whole UI that was made of loads of small buttons every few milliseconds) that my Intel core 2 duo couldn't run it properly. Good times.
Speak for yourself. The internet has been a great place imo, at least partly.
Well yes, but that's not how your average user thinks and acts. They will either a) contact you as the developer of the app that doesn't seem to work and when your say it's not your fault give you bad reviews or b) directly give you bad reviews.