First off, I believe the movies have shown us what bad coding can do. Hal, Vicki, Skynet. It breaks, there goes humanity.

Second, I think some parts of some engineering professions have an explosion when it goes right.

Hal, Vicki, Skynet are all fictional, they have not actually happened. Besides, those are functioning as intended... they are doing their job, just when something follows the exact word of a job... things go bad.


Edit: Why are we arguing a joke?

Engineers are known for their anal-retentiveness (kidding here. Don't shoot at me!). Also, killing jokes earns fat, fat XP.

I'd agree with that; moved away years ago an engineer in the public transport, where if you screw up losts of people die to a network engineer where if you screw up some websites are unavailable. It pays better and you don't get sued for manslaughter too! Perhaps some would think if Lusternia is unavailable its the end of the world, but several tonnes of bridge falling on you can really ruin your day. So I'm probably an ex-engineer.

Anyway! Enough of the bleakness! There were definitely some things in that checklist that clicked. I've even used a spirit level on a painting, more so that it stops the whole "its still not straight" argument.

I don't know about the desirability of female engineers. At last back at uni I thought they were a bit scary, like and that the nursing students on the next floor down were much more interesting.

Uh... there's more to software then games and the internet. Software is everywhere, and bad software can have very expensive/fatal consequences.

Especially if its connected to something nasty, like a missile "Hey that schoolbus looks like a tank, let's go visit it"

Point taken!

yeah but without real engineers there would be no missile... so...

Without software engineers, you'd have to throw it... so...



(Not to mention, "real" engineers likely used software to design and simulate it)

Hmm. Wernher von Braun vs Bill Gates. I think the ex-Nazi wins.

EDIT: OOOPS! THIS ISN'T THE YOUTUBE THREAD!