Originally posted by The Lone Gunman
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostI could still sell it
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostYou are still not a profession
I have a degree in an engineering discipline and I apply that knowledge when performing my work. I have acquired years of on the job knowledge.
Maybe profession is beyond us as software engineers, but I feel that chartered status should be available and be required as a must have to perform some functions.
I am constantly amazed by some of the people who work on software for systems that could kill hundreds should they fail. Let alone the people who have developed (or failed to develop) the failed government projects that have cost billions.
Can you imagine the uproar if a bridge collapsed and you found out that the engineering team had no quals and weren't chartered?
Yet it is still acceptable to hire software developers who have learned to write software by "playing" with it.
Oooooh, went off on one then...........................
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostI dont think you can call it a trade even.
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostI dont think you can call it a trade even.
profession, n.
7. a. An occupation in which a professed knowledge of some subject, field, or science is applied; a vocation or career, especially one that involves prolonged training and a formal qualification. Also occas. as mass noun: occupations of this kind.
trade, n.
5. a. The practice of some occupation, business, or profession habitually carried on, esp. when practised as a means of livelihood or gain; a calling; formerly used very widely, including professions; now usually applied to a mercantile occupation and to a skilled handicraft, as distinct from a profession (PROFESSION 6a), and spec. restricted to a skilled handicraft, as distinguished from a professional or mercantile occupation on the one hand, and from unskilled labour on the other. in trade, following a mercantile occupation, spec. that of a shop-keeper.
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Originally posted by Cheshire Cat View PostAgreed. It's a trade. Sometimes highly skilled, and sometimes highly paid, but nevertheless, a trade.
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Agreed. It's a trade. Sometimes highly skilled, and sometimes highly paid, but nevertheless, a trade.
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Originally posted by The Lone Gunman View PostDodgy!!! That is almost actionable.
How so? I don't sell it. I build customised software to the clients requirement. It is sold once the contract is signed as long as it meets the spec.
I dont know the radar freqs or the weapons settings either.
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostI bet I could sell all the crap you build better than you could
How so? I don't sell it. I build customised software to the clients requirement. It is sold once the contract is signed as long as it meets the spec.
I dont know the radar freqs or the weapons settings either.
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostDon't the Russians want it?
Knowing what frequency the radar is on might be a bit more useful.
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Originally posted by Moscow Mule View PostI doubt it, eurofighter software is a bit of a closed market...
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostI bet I could sell all the crap you build better than you could
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Originally posted by The Lone Gunman View PostGo on I'll bite.
I bet I can acquire and place 10 contractors (your job) before you can either:
Validate and Verify the software process for a small jet trainer.
Write a device driver for a graphics card and write the testware for the box it sits in.
Port the navigation software for a euro fighter from an old 68K mother board to a new ppc and slice it up to b enon platform specific.
Write the testware for the Tornado ballistic and guided weapons system.
Write the software for the eurofighter radar.
Design and write the software to intercept any flight plan introduced which lists banned air frames, operators or country of departure.
Gather the requirements for any aircraft system.
Do the design and produce teh UML and other specs for said system.
Create the testware for said system.
(some of the above are easier than others. Shortest is a 6 weeker. You should be able to figure out which).
My job.
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