I was browsing the internet recently on my electronic browse-board when I came across this list of good attributes for a software engineer. I though I would share it with you.
http://www.thundernet.com/alpartis/articles/engineer.shtml
IMHO there's quite a difference from being a developer or "hacker" as Paul Graham likes to say and being a software engineer. I don't like being called a hacker. I like to think of myself as a very clever, inventive, dedicated, no compromises, problem solving rottweiler. However, I also like to think that what I'm doing is designing products for some goal. Products that will be around for a long time and are built with maintainability and extensibility in mind. While coming up with a cute solution is nice, software development is more than that. You have specs, deadlines, budgets, design constraints, maintainability, complexity budgets, safety of people and their data, coupling, cohesion, deployment, supportability etc.. to worry about. The hacker finds solutions. The engineer builds. And their's a fundamental difference in mindset.
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