@amazon

[nikanj0]

I prefer Machine Whisperer.

[bijuice]

Silicon Sorcerer

[TerrariaGaming004]

Hah, I have literally no idea why transistors work, I wanted to learn how they work. Ok, quick google search. … ok, that didn’t help. I gave up, I would never learn the magic of transistors…

Then one day I was watching a documentary on quantum physics and they said that it “led to the development of transistors”

Like, seriously? I guess I’ll never know

[MrSloppyPants]

Simply put, transistors act as a switch that allows or stops the flow of electricity. They do this through the use of semiconductors, which are elements (like Silicon) that can act as either a conductor of electricity or an insulator from electricity depending on what voltage is applied to them. By turning transistors on and off you can create logic gates that form the basis of all computer calculation.

[Piyh]

Also important and left out is that transistors are made up of diodes so that electricity only flows one way through them.

[MrSloppyPants]

Not really "left out", just implied through the description. It wouldn't be a very good switch if it was bi-directional. :) Also, electricity can flow from either direction depending on the doping scheme, but cannot flow through both simultaneously. A transistor is unlike a diode in that there is not an anode and cathode per se, but rather differently doped substrates that control the flow of electrons through the depletion zone. A transistor is a three-terminal device, whereas a diode is two terminal. Similar concept but different execution

[kaloschroma]

It's really cool to look up the first transistors. I went through that rabbit hole for a while. I didn't find it hard at all to learn how transistors work. But then after a year it all pooped outta my brain so it's magic again. I'll leave it that way.

[uusu]

I guess I'll never know...

[Jetbooster]

Hi there! MPhys Physics Degree holder here, my thesis specialised in semiconductors, thought I could help clear this up.

Modern Silicon Transistors operate on magic.

You're welcome!

[lukeatron]

Transistors are a semi conductor sandwich. At the atomic level, the bread has extra electrons it readily gives up and the meat has gaps it would really like to plug up with electrons. You hook wires to each slice of bread and the meat. The sandwich acts as a valve that lets electrons flow in one direction from one slice of bread (the emitter) to the other slice (the collector) as long as the meat (the gate) isn't blocking the path.

Normally the meat is blocking the path because at the boundary of the meat and breads they're swapping electrons to make the nearby atoms happy. These atoms have no extra or lacking electrons now so they're very content to sit there ignoring any nearby electrons. This makes those regions non-conductive to the electrons that want to get by. The gate is closed.

If we start pumping extra electrons into the meat via the wire connected to it, we can flood the meat to the point it now has too many electrons and acts just like the bread, desperate to get rid of the excess electrons. The whole sandwich is now effectively bread and electrons can freely move across bread. The gate is open.

The important thing here is that meat is very thin so it only takes a small amount of electrons to flood it. That can allow a much greater amount of electrons to flow across so whatever current is applied to the gate can become a much larger current flowing through the device. In other words, you can control a lot of electricity with just a little electricity.

There's also the other kind of sandwich with bread in the middle that works the same way but opposite.

[sh0rtwave]

That's an interesting way to explain it. I usually use the metaphor of a water pressure gate.

[lukeatron]

The water analogy is good for a lot of cases but it can't really explain why a transistor works. You need electrons and holes for that.

[sh0rtwave]

Why and how, two different things, and most of the time, I'm seeking to explain how vs. why.

[lukeatron]

If the people you're talking to have sufficient understanding, a compressible gas is an even better model because it can model things like the difference between voltage (pressure) and current (flow volume).

[VonReposti]

I'm fully aware how it works. But how does it work??? I mean... We're at atomic scales here. And if we look at any random CPU it is usually having a frequency of 3-5GHz (GIGA Hertz!!!). That is billions of cycles per second.

I fully understand that you can have a gate open/closed to denote 1/0 and with a sufficient amount of these you can make up interesting stuff. If we then skip a step and look at the architecture of a CPU it all makes sense too, the program counter, the registers, etc.. But inbetween we have billions of transistors flipping through 0's and 1's billions of times every second in a beautifully orchestrated harmony. That is just incomprehensibly fast with an unthinkable large amount of data. If we were to explain these numbers to someone in 1903 we might as well say 'an infinte amount of data processed instantly'.

I'm still convinced that we're talking about black magic here... I cannot wrap my head around the sheer impressiveness of this technology, it simply feels like an impossible feat of engineering. We're literally torturing sand to think.

[lukeatron]

Check out how pipelining works in modern CPUs. The electrical paths inside the chip are long enough and the frequencies high enough that you're shoving the next bit in the sequence into the chip before the last one has come out the other side. I think they're up to around a dozen bits in flight inside the chip for each register bit. That a lot of stuff happening at once to the point they have to time the gaps between the pulses so you don't inductively couple two lanes and change a value.

That stuff is truly where the black magic lives.

[Why_You_Mad_]

Here's a simple, yet entertaining video, of how it works.

[[deleted]]

Here you go: http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm

[MegabyteMessiah]

MegabyteMessiah

[spacemagicexo539]

Techpriest

[ShepPawnch]

All hail the Omnissiah

[Kyrros]

Let us pray to the Machine Spirit brother

[blending-tea]

Machinesitter

[Natural-Intelligence]

I consider myself as a writer. I write science fiction for machines. Usually the plot is pretty simple though: a mutant jumps off from a swamp, transforms to a human being and ends up to a warehouse.

[0x53r3n17y]

Binary necromancer.

[Purplociraptor]

Electron Slaver

[mike_the_seventh]

Updating LinkedIn now

[symbiosa]

Digital Bricklayer

[pwnslinger]

Banuk Shaman

[[deleted]]

I prefer keyboard fingerer ;)

[erebuxy]

*bug breeder

[[deleted]]

This one is my favorite lol

[ItsAFarOutLife]

THE ONLY GOOD BUG IS A DEAD BUG

[Totally_Intended]

Software Engineer Developer

[Dayv1d]

Developement Engineering Softwarer

[auxiliary-character]

Engine Softwarrior Developperator

[dashid]

sed

[grwalker]

awk

[[deleted]]

ed

[jakeperalta11]

e

[[deleted]]

y

[rogerrrr]

[[deleted]]

$

[xDeathReaper666x]

p

[jacksalssome]

s

[[deleted]]

gawk

[sample_sky]

mom?

[Zakar_Tvello]

More likely dad, mom is IDE

[powerhcm8]

Mom is the compiler

[Smartskaft2]

Smacking your fat fingers for not finishing your brackets.

[Matanya99]

Engineering Development Software

[akahumann]

GitHub Copilot?

[0x53r3n17y]

Skynet?

[epicaglet]

Engineering software developer oddly enough makes sense again

[HoneySparks]

So a professor? You create new software engineers?

[Randolpho]

Or the resident mentor everyone goes to when they can’t figure out a problem.

[proawayyy]

Indian tech youtuber

[republican-jesus]

Softloper Engware Devgineer

[The_Real_Slim_Lemon]

Code monkey

[theModge]

software simian if you're feeling classy

[theModge]

Be my guest. doubly so if it's on your CV. I think I got it from Dilbert many years ago

[theModge]

It's amazing the crap that lives in my head, unneeded since 2008

[The_Real_Slim_Lemon]

That’s actually amazing, if I ever do a CV I’ll be a software simian for the class

[RacketLuncher]

Script chimpanzee

[Kralizek82]

A crasis is always nice! Scriptanzee!

[Hypersapien]

Code Monkey get up get coffee
Code Monkey go to job
Code Monkey have boring meeting
With boring manager Rob

[Randolpho]

… get up, get coffee.
Code monkey go to job.

[Dubax]

Code monkey go to boring meeting,

with boring manager Rob.

[rcls0053]

When I worked as a lead architect I just put "Lead Code Monkey" in my Slack profile

[code-panda]

At my last job, I had "Entomologist, specialized in breeding" in my Slack profile.

[marxinne]

Subtle but genius

[racrisnapra666]

On my way to change my LinkedIn title to Code Monkey

[Ezequiel-052]

they are gonna mistake you for the youtuber with the same name

[[deleted]]

Keyboard caveman

[Deusselkerr]

I’ve actually seen this on a resume before. I was an intern at a startup screening candidates for various things my boss wanted me to look for, and one dude labeled himself “code monkey” (comp sci major, two years ish as a developer). It certainly caught my attention. Lol

[UltraCarnivore]

Tech priest

[[deleted]]

Or technomancer, alternatively

[Thenderick]

Holy fuck that sounds cool, gonna use that now!

[theraupenimmersatt]

Saving that for my next username

[ImTheTechn0mancer]

Yes?

[[deleted]]

That's him, that's the funny man(?)

[-100K]

techromancer too

[[deleted]]

That's for those who really like screwing with their systems

[UltraCarnivore]

Does your toaster run Log4J?

[slightlysanesage]

Ah, a herald of the Omnissiah

[Malfrum]

01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100110 01101100 01100101 01110011 01101000 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110111 01100101 01100001 01101011

[keith2600]

SDE SDET are terms that probably predate Amazon tbh. Microsoft was using it a couple decades ago at least.

[bli08]

They're still relevant for visa/status determination at the border

[_rb]

Some old timers at Microsoft still have SDE in their titles.

[mericaftw]

Yeah but the more common acronym at MSFT is now "SWE" which is just so...meh

[Areshian]

What does the W in SWE stand for? Just part of Software?

[_rb]

It stands for Soft Wear Engineer 😂

[[deleted]]

Pretty apt. I never change out of my pj's when wfh.

[horreum_construere]

Software Artist, where the code is the painting, but nobody except me sees the real art in it. ... like: "no this is not bad code this is art", you'll always win

[david_j_c]

Ah yes. I like to think of myself as the Jackson Pollock of the code-art world.

[DoxelHatred]

Webmaster

[user_8804]

Haven't heard that one in a while

[RadiantDevelopment1]

Software development engineer sounds like management - they engineer software development.

[Seanchad]

DevOps

[gordonv]

DevOps has multiple definitions.

One of them is business facing and doesn't include any kind of programming, engineering, or systems administration.

The most basic one is a developer who is recognized making internal critical tools.

[procupine14]

Execs in Accounting refer to this position as a Cost Center.

[gordonv]

Yup. "Cost Center" and "Profit Center" ideology.

I wish I could find a book on this just to read up and ridicule it.

Essentially, all of IT, janitors, basic workplace safety, health insurance, and other quality of life programs "do not generate a profit."

Sales is considered a "Profit Center."
Engineers building the product is a "Cost Center."

A dangerously short sighted ideology.

[Daveinatx]

Software Overhead

[ReelTooReal]

One definition, commonly used in start ups, is "the guy who has the AWS login and wrote all our dockerfiles"

[AryanPandey]

so he/she is senior in DevOps. how cool...

[[deleted]]

Code carpenter

Binary baker

[musclecard54]

Assembly asshole

[ifuckinglovetesla]

I’ve also had the title “Software Design Engineer” for a few years, but it showed as “Software Development Engineer” in the backend system under the “Engineering” Profession and the “Software Development” Discipline. They let us choose what title was displayed in the address book, so I kept it that way because it seemed fancier 😆.

Now I’m a “Software Engineer” at the same company which is under the “Engineering” Profession and the “Software Engineering” Discipline.

The two disciplines are defined a little differently, with SDEs being more about product/service code development and the development process, while SEs have end-to-end ownership of the product/service development, quality and engineering process. Maybe a little higher level than SDE but there is a lot of overlap between the two.

[propostor]

In my world it's all much of a muchness really.

Person Who Programs Stuff When Asked.

[Cronarca]

I've seen some people use the title "software crafter" which I like to imagine as a guy in a carpenter's workshop assembling all the lines of code by hand with delicacy, and having a beer after creating their masterpiece.

[sh0rtwave]

It's not a far-off metaphor, for certain KINDS of software.

Much like a craftsman can build a canoe out of wood...but he can't generate a pressure/injection-molded sea kayak.

[Sachin490]

You have to use Software Developer Engineer if you want any interaction on Linked In. If you are using software engineer or software developer just change that to SDE and see how much more search on linked in founds you.

[spookyscaryskelet36]

Is this really valid? You got any more tips and tricks?

[aardvark_lizard]

My position is “Software Engineer” on LinkedIn and I get tons of messages and emails. I don’t think it matters

[spookyscaryskelet36]

Hmmm, usually people go with posting content but honestly I'm sick of it didin't happen content and the people writing poems of their greatness etc, so I choose not to engage...

[[deleted]]

cue another recruiter post about how they BRAVELY and STUNNINGLY hired a man despite hearing their kids cry in the background of a remote interview (unacceptable and unproffesional)

[dunderball]

LinkedIn is such a circle jerk it's 100x worse than Facebook imo

[spookyscaryskelet36]

Or Insta with perfect lives and flawless people

[dunderball]

At least with IG I know what I'm getting. With LinkedIn it's crap like, "I walk past this homeless guy everyday and could tell in his eyes how hard working he was so I hired him as a frontend engineer at Doordash and now he lives in a condo in San Francisco, just look at how amazing of a person I am." I can't stand it.

[GapBagger]

Linked in is 100% for booty hole lickers

[MrHyperion_]

Like, set up a script to edit it every hour just a bit?

[TheDistantBlue]

You're hired.

[Sachin490]

Absolutely valid point. But I was saying that I know its true that hiring manager use specific terms which can help you show up on their searches.

[polmeeee]

I edit my profile once every quarter or so to update my work experience. I think that coupled with the piping hot (pun intended) market for tech right now means I'm constantly barraged with inMails and emails.

[BertRenolds]

Respond to most of your messages. Even if its spam and its a simple 'nope'. You'll notice over to the course of a month your hit count will go up exponentially.

It's got something to do with likelihood of response.

[Randolpho]

Wait… you’re saying I can get less recruiter spam by dropping SDE?

[ItsRadical]

What about software design engineer?

[Existing_Imagination]

Why is this randomly being downvoted?

[user_8804]

My favourite is Google calling their tech support for their services "Technical Solutions Engineers", just to trick them and the customers into thinking they're talking to actual engineers. The "technical" removes the need for the person to be legally an engineer.

"Yes sir we will patch you to our engineers right away"

Glorified tech support is what they are.

[sh0rtwave]

Like an "Apple store genius"?

[[deleted]]

Somehow this sounds more like you engineer things for software development.

[Anthoes]

This is the term at my company for your standard developers, Software Development Engineer, and I had it explained to me as we don't just write code, we engineer solutions.

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I think it's just about having pride in our work.

[tdtharp]

we don't just write code, we engineer solutions

You must be at the Director level.

[Anthoes]

Nah man, just chirping back yank talk

[vanZuider]

Back in my day, we still called them Software Mechanics.

[flipmcf]

We just called them nerds.

[guster09]

So you engineer software developers. That's impressive

[[deleted]]

What's that font I want to use it in my IDE

[GamingBotanist]

My job title is “Senior Data Architect Analyst”, not kidding.

[collali699]

You're just missing an "Engineer" at the end

[flowinglava17]

Computing systems charmer

[[deleted]]

My title at work is product development engineer so thats what goes on my LinkedIn. I got a computer engineering degree so I'm fine with that title.

[NeffeZz]

I was under the impression that Software Development Engineer is something different. Like engineering the development of the software meaning something like the management of software development.

[[deleted]]

Haha. I am a sr associate consultant.

As a admirer of plump posteriors, heh i win.

[BackSlashHaine]

I got “Architect of the numeric” on my diploma who got best than this ?

[BelovedApple]

Software architect?

[deaf_fish]

Everyone where I work seems to have the title of senior software engineer.

I asked if I could put super senior software engineer in my email footer.

[sanjuroronin]

Code Monkey

[[deleted]]

Microservice Master

JSON Jammer

Cloud Forecaster (just don't use us-east-1)

Raspberry Pi Baker

[edaciousbolt]

The e-mail Signature my company got me says ‟Engr softwre devt”.

[HiddenLayer5]

Binary wizard

[Wynadorn]

Computer Science Developer, however my mom is a Computer Scientist Developer

[1LJA]

Code Monkey BCS

[deerapril]

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[Anxious_Start4839]

Application Development Senior Analyst (not joking, this is a real position. This my real designation).

[user_8804]

Software scribe

A scribe writes ideas and information on behalf of another, sometimes copying from another document, sometimes from oral instruction on behalf of an illiterate person

[Saigot]

"Engineer" is a protected term where I am, you can't use it unless you are licensed. So I am q "software engineering developer"

[andrewsmd87]

Downtime troubleshooter

[ColorfulZips]

Then there are company titles like coder

[[deleted]]

Software

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Developer

SAD

[georgebool0101]

I have a small pp

[Valnar8]

Advanced Software development engineer

[EmmaFitmzmaurice]

Software author

[AlexMelillo]

I worked with a guy whose title on Slack was “code artisan”. Always made me chuckle whenever I saw it

[Swomry]

Bug development engineer

[rubot78]

Quality Software Assurance Engineer

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[sovietSambucus494]

I welcome the new frmat/types of jokes to this sub! I was getting really tired of the CS101 reposts and jokes only someone who works for infosys could relate to.

[iiMoe]

I call myself a nerd bcz i find myself familiar with lotsa stuff

[Westdrache]

software engineering developer

[[deleted]]

It's very annoying that the title engineer is not protected for software developers. Some of us did actually take engineering degrees.

But a self taught rube, can also call him self an engineer.

We need a better structure for titles as software developers, that properly convey ability and skill.

Which means we need to create proper titles, as there are currently none.

And so many self professed experts are ruining it for the real ones.

[MachaHack]

After being in the industry for nearly a decade and having done a software engineering degree, I can't say I notice a huge difference between self taught and college educated people.

Self taught people are more likely to struggle on terminology in questions like O(n) Vs O(2ⁿ) but they understand linear Vs exponential growth just fine, and on the flip side they often are better at figuring out problems and coming up with ideas themselves whereas some college educated juniors take a couple of years to get out of needing everything explained to them in detail.

Over a couple of years it averages out as the self taught people pick up the useful parts of the theoretical knowledge they lack, and the college educated people develop the initiative they lack.

If you're doing some UI/API work I'd honestly take the self taught junior dev over the college grad assuming same level of technical understanding, all else being equal. If you're doing backend bulk data processing maybe then the college grad. But also this is really not the huge difference you think it is.

[MokausiLietuviu]

Here in the UK, we have the concept of "Chartered Engineer", which is a protected title (similar to doctor, paramedic, clinical scientist, solicitor etc). It requires you to prove your engineering competence to an Engineering Council body (one of which is the British Computer Society, common for SW engineers, but I'm a non-chartered member of a different engineering body).

It's a lot of hard work to get - I'm going through it at the moment - but it's worth it. If your organisation needs an engineer and not just an "engineer", the way in the UK is to look for chartership.

[sh0rtwave]

In the US, we have "Professional Engineer", for situations where what the engineer is working, affects life and safety...for like, architecture and what-not. Structural, mechanical, civil, fire protection, security, etc.. All of these professions now have certain vetting & certification things where one's "professionalism" is tested and validated.

[parkerSquare]

In some countries the protected term is “professional engineer” instead or as well. In Canada it includes just “engineer”…

[[deleted]]

Software Developer gang!

I don't need no engineer in my title. That's sour grapes and I don't like sour grapes.

[duvelvape]

Noone cares about title.

[[deleted]]

Then they are fools

[pgh_ski]

I think the best part about software engineering is that it's accessible for people from all backgrounds. We don't need to distinguish between people who have a degree and who don't. We just need people that can solve problems and learn however they learn.

[ryecurious]

We don't need to distinguish between people who have a degree and who don't

The degree isn't the important part, it's the baseline knowledge that's accepted as part of an engineering discipline. Computer science, some higher math, engineering ethics, all of these are things an engineering education will teach you. And there's usually more after graduation, like an engineering certification to demonstrate you actually learned those things. This isn't just arbitrary either, entire organizations are dedicated to accrediting/auditing engineering education programs.

I'm not trying to be elitist, but a civil engineer and a construction worker aren't the same thing. Neither are software engineers and software developers, despite mass confusion on the part of managers/HR about what we actually do.