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in reply to Software engineering: a useless profession?

>if you are a software engineer, you will ....
...maintain an air of dark mystery and occult wisdom...

or you stun your friends with statements like I run Linux, I have no virus', spyware or adware problems, oh, and I never crash ... more wine ?

On a more serious note, I think it is my mindset, rather than my skillset that I use - logic, planning, decomposition, handling errors/failure are used at home all the time.

use brain;