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Entertainers are not Engineers. They fall for marketing significantly easier and use Veblen goods to signal wealth and power. Then they get used to a system a
by nvrGiveUp 6y ago
Entertainers are not Engineers.
They fall for marketing significantly easier and use Veblen goods to signal wealth and power.
Then they get used to a system and it's all they know. It's more effort to change and they get locked in.
- dodobirdlord 6y agoOut of the FAANG companies I can’t speak for Facebook and Netflix, but I can assure you that the engineers at Apple, Amazon, and Google have a broad preference for macOS and Apple laptops. Since the pandemic even the engineers using desktop Linux have mostly transitioned to Apple laptop + remote Linux server.
- nvrGiveUp 6y agoSoftware "Engineers" are not Engineers
- nvrGiveUp 6y agoSoftware engineers are not Engineers if we use the strict definition of Applied scientists. Software engineers are forced to use tradition and Authority due to abstraction. I say this as a programmer.
- dodobirdlord 6y agoApplied scientist is not and has never been the definition of an engineer. Dating back to the term’s earliest usage, predating both modern English and the scientific method, it has meant someone who designs and maintains complex machines.
- nvrGiveUp 6y agoIndustrial engineers? Chemical engineers?
- blymd 6y agoDon't be ridiculous. The designers at the highest level of entertainment are extremely technical.
- nvrGiveUp 6y agoNot Science