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#2There's the old quote attributed to Djikstra:
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
But who cares about titles, really? Why do they matter?
The article makes the claim that you can tell someone's not a scientist if they have 'scientist' in their title. I'd argue for a corollary: you can tell someone probably doesn't deserve their title if they spend any significant amount of time worrying about it.
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#3What's in a name...
99% of what is called Computer Science is more engineering based on the 1% actually expanding the knowledge and making Elsevier richer.... (or not based on science and just reinventing the wheel over and over again as aptly noted by fogus).
I personally like the title "IT guy" as it pretty sums up what the rest of the world thinks of it all.
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#4Countries with the word 'democratic' in them:
- People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the
- East Timor – Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
- Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
- Korea, North – Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- Laos – Lao People's Democratic Republic
- Nepal – Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
- São Tomé and Príncipe – Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe
- Sri Lanka – Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
I don't know the details of the political situation in those countries, but my hunch is that they are less likely to be democratic than your average country.
Is there a name for this phenomena?
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#5I've worked in roles which were titled "technologist". I think it was the most correct position name I've had.
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#6I've worked in roles which were titled "technologist". I think it was the most correct position name I've had.
On a related note, I was thrilled when Craigstlist opened up an "Internet Engineers" job section. I think that is a great title.
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#7There's the old quote attributed to Djikstra: Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. But who cares about titles, really? Why do they matter? The article makes the claim that you can tell someone's not a scientist if they have 'scientist' in their title. I'd argue for a corollary: you can tell someone probably doesn't deserve their title if they spend any significant amount of…
As someone who has just moved to the US and been through the "joy" of looking for work; me.
I'm a server admin, I have come to realize that what I do can be titled many different things. System admin / engineer, network admin / engineer, server admin / engineer, windows / linux admin / engineer..... and more.
I dearly wish there was just one title for my job.
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#8Computer Science is an example of a formal science:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_science
Or, in parts, an applied science:
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#9How about Computer Plumber, Network Plumber, System Plumber, Data Plumber?
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#10Countries with the word 'democratic' in them: - People's Democratic Republic of Algeria - Congo, Democratic Republic of the - East Timor – Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste - Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia - Korea, North – Democratic People's Republic of Korea - Laos – Lao People's Democratic Republic - Nepal – Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal - São Tomé and Príncipe – Democratic Republic of São Tomé an…
Doublethink? Orwell's Ministry of Peace/Love/Plenty.