[browski]

That's a self selecting vain perspective to conclude with.

Code is just storage medium. The hardware ultimately decides a lot that's out of our hands anyway; hardware never runs code in any structured way so getting intimate with the source structure is wasted effort. You're a worse engineer being a bottleneck in deference to bike shedding.

End of the day code is just labels on a mathematical algorithm that fits a biz edge case. Like a k:v store; sumAllCustomerBalances() is a to the a value (the function logic) that serves a business need. If the business is reliant on that behavior it won't go anywhere. And algorithms need to change as data sets change or new better algorithms are discovered.

Code is disposable. We aren't building bridges.

Whole lot of romanticizing the machine seems to have occurred since I started in this industry back in the 00s. Imo a result of people being online debating the (from my perspective) same old since slashdot was the new hotness.

In conclusion I have a different view and have been successful in hardware and software engineering for almost 30 years now.

Ymmv

[g-b-r]

> and have been successful in hardware and software engineering for almost 30 years now.

as shown by your one day old account

[browski]

Yeah I am mostly retired in late 40s having saved as much as possible as fast as possible and have time on my hands. Am exploring social media I largely ignored while staying busy working.

Besides even if it was 3 years old account it still wouldn't tell the story correctly.

That's a measure as dumb as lines of code = productivity.

I understand; your parents made your account when you were born in 2017. Being 9 explains such shoddy reasoning. Oh wait is that when you got your first job; making an HN account some universal ritual for all new workers? Shoot too bad I missed out in 1999 when I landed my first real hardware engineer job.

You might need to logoff and go live in the real world a while. Coming off like one of those snowflakes I have heard about

[g-b-r]

Yeah, sure

> hardware and software engineering

So, it's firmware or embedded stuff what you had worked on?

And maybe you're an electronic engineer?

That could make things a bit more understandable, I would be less surprised that you don't give a fuck about the quality of source code (and probably wouldn't be able to write good code in any case).