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Magician.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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It's not about the abilities of the individual; it's about the criticality of the product.
If it's a web site or line-of-business app, it ain't engineering, so don't call yourself an engineer.
There are very very few software engineers. I'm a software developer and architect.
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General (software) contractor.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Having a title just means you're still a junior looking for a promotion to the next higher title.
My business card doesn't have a title, and I rarely hand one to anybody that does.
(Well I do have some old business cards from a previous employer, useful for trade shows where they expect you to provide a card to get in - they're not getting my real card either.)
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I dont have a business card and it wasnt a question about titles, it was a question about mentality.
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So when you say "So I think of myself as a software engineer, not a programmer" that's not putting a title on yourself/what you do?
Okay then, keep going, work hard and you might get there one day.
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Lopatir wrote: what you do
Write kernel code for windows and linux. The most important part of this is the design, the architecture, because if that is wrong the product will never fly.
The details, the syntax, I often have to look up, because I keep forgetting it.
It is usually because my head gets so deep into complex relational behaviour between components that it just can't hold the bits and pieces for any longer than it needs to.
Lopatir wrote: you might get there one day
Been doing it for 20 years and get paid very nicely for doing so thankyou! 
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I usually introduce myself as a geek. When talking to non geeks. In a company of other geeks I say I do development. I try to leave it at that.
Some days I am a strict coder. Some days I am an architect. Some days I am the customer. Most days I am just keep politics from ruining mine and my teams lives.
As someone else said. I don't really fit into the current buzzword. I also don't want to be labeled by a buzzword. I can do design work, I can meet with the customer and come up with an overriding solution. I can be put in a corner and given specs and crank out code.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Geeks are circus performers.
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I also call myself software engineer, although, if blundering hacks like us would be held up to the standards of civil engineering, we would all be in jail.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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True.
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"Jim, for one million dollars, what is your name!"
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eh... I'm whatever the job description says.
Just tell me the technologies used and the pay scale.
Call me whatever you like, just don't call me late for dinner.
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Pualee wrote: Call me whatever you like, just don't call me late for dinner.
That's what Dwight (Robert De Niro) said from the movie This Boys Life.
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Code Monkey?
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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Everyone at the current gig is called a "software engineer". I don't really care much for titles - I just enjoy getting paid to play with computers all day.
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It wasnt a 'title' question, but a 'what sort of person are you' question.
Either a detail obsessed bit stuffer, ie, programmer, or someone with the wider big view, the designer (which is what I do and regularly make a mess of live coding tests because I use calc to verify all my bitwise logic and google to look up the syntax of the stuff I, regularly, forget. 
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Munchies_Matt wrote: 'what sort of person are you'
Nice
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: Nice
I think we should vote on that. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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It's the holes in the roles that I play that make, or break, my day.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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I tend to call a lot of them keyboard smashers.
Pound keys, till something happens. 
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Software Engineerings tell you what to do, Programmers need somebody who tells them what to do and sometimes how to do it. 
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I have 58 reasons to code - to bitcoin a phrase
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