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Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup

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Re: Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup

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A very precise definition of an engineer? Engineers build tools. Artists build amusements. Scientists build ideas. Programmer = Engineer.

By those definitions I'd consider Software Development as Sciartiginering. It's easier to say developer though.

I have done all three and the motivations and results of each are distinct. If you are Sciartiginering you are not building software. Maybe ASCII art?
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