Tinder, a dating app, has recently updated its Terms of Service. Among minor bureaucratic modifications, one major change aims to battle impersonations. From now on, Tinder will ban web developers who claim to be 'engineers'. While backend- and other types of software developers seem to be unaffected, many believe the ToS will be amended soon to include those as well.
  • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
    1331·
    7 months ago

    This is a new satire site, right? These days it’s getting harder and harder to differentiate between reality and fiction in tech. The rest of their posts are pretty much spot on.

      • hansl@lemmy.world
        311·
        7 months ago

        It’s a good thing that Engineer is a protected profession and not everyone can claim it, like Lawyer or Doctor.

        In the US now it’s “oh you’re an engineer? Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?”

        • macaroni1556@lemmy.ca
          101·
          7 months ago

          I disagree, I believe the regulatory agencies do nothing in Canada to legitimize their claim to regulating software development. Heck, they do nothing for electronics or semiconductors or anything smaller than the power grid.

          • hansl@lemmy.world
            152·
            7 months ago

            Software development is done by developers. If you are a software engineer chances are you’re working on software infrastructure that actually apply at scales that are not “add a shopping cart to this blog”.

            There are reasons you ask a civil engineer for work.

            • macaroni1556@lemmy.ca
              8·
              7 months ago

              You missed my point that if professional engineering societies in Canada want to take ownership of software and electronics, they better do something and not just say they’re regulating it and sit on it with no clear definition for what it even is.

              If they were doing their job, we wouldn’t need to debate what a software engineer is. They’ve let us down and they’re getting away with it.

              • hansl@lemmy.world
                4·
                7 months ago

                They’re regulating engineering of software and electronics.

                From Engineers Canada;

                In the case of software engineering, a piece of software (or a software-intensive system) can therefore be considered an engineering work if both of the following conditions are true:

                • The development of the software required “the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software.”

                • There is a reasonable expectation that failure or inappropriate functioning of the system would result in harm to life, health, property, economic interests, the public welfare, or the natural environment.

                That does seem to me well defined. If you disagree then it’s okay.

                Edit: taken from this: https://engineerscanada.ca/sites/default/files/public-policy/professional-practice-software-engineering-en.pdf which also add context.

                I cannot speak about electronics as my education was in software engineering.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      8·
      7 months ago

      Thanks, I didn’t even notice. It’s not a normal decision that would be made, but sometimes there’s weird stuff buried deep in the paperwork.