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.
  • @xor@infosec.pub
    68•4 months ago

    can we ban web developers who call themselves “developers”?

    also php programmers who call themselves anything?

    • TheHarpyEagle
      48•4 months ago

      Nah, no need for this kind of gatekeeping. Anyone who deals with js and its billions of frameworks on a daily basis deserves to be called a developer.

        • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
          5•4 months ago

          Heyyy its your super duper new project manager! I hope you are feeling a-mazing because you are my a-ce on the team. Anyways i need you to do things twice as fast, because we are running low on budget after sales promised another feature without extra billing and the CEO already signed off on it. Please make this happen somehow. If this project isn’t succesfull i’ll get fired and have to sell the house. But no pressure!

    • @AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
      12•4 months ago

      I’m a full-stack web developer and am involved all the way through including cloud infrastructure, API development, database creation/maintenance, test automation, architecture etc.

      I guess what makes a “developer” in your context different? Embedded? Kernel?

      • ThyTTY
        9•4 months ago

        Only those who code in the same language as I am can be called developers. Everyone else is just an impostor and their technology doesn’t matter! Real programmers use my language of choice

    • @dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8•4 months ago

      To be fair, we do develop stuff. Nothing implies quality, so it’s not like we’re misrepresenting anything. Personally, anyone who calls themselves a software engineer and works with any web-related technology (PHP, JavaScript, etc) are the ones to be shunned.

    • astraeus
      6•4 months ago

      As if webapps aren’t usurping mobile and desktop apps, anything not C# or .NET is a toy language?

      • @xor@infosec.pub
        3•4 months ago

        c# and .net? ewww…

        gimme c, c++, go, rust, ruby, python…
        and umm, no dude, native apps are a lot more powerful than web apps… they are not usurped at all

        there’s more of them, but there’s more scooters than motorcycles…

        • astraeus
          5•4 months ago

          Scooters are more efficient, get you where you need to go and cost less to maintain. Your analogy is actually pretty good in that regard.

          • @xor@infosec.pub
            2•4 months ago

            yeah and they only get you around the neighborhood, any actual distance and a motorcycle is infinitely better…
            but, it figures you’d miss that, since you’re a dumby dumbo mcpoopoo head webdev

            • astraeus
              4•4 months ago

              Now you’re throwing ad hominem around. You don’t need to be toxic to communicate your point, web development did at one point have a lot of growing to do and I can admit that there is still plenty of progress to be made. In 2024 however, ignoring the web ecosystem as any type of developer is purely traditionalist elitism.

            • adr1anM
              1•4 months ago

              Please refrain of using offensive words, specially if you are trying to actually communicate an idea that is by all means demeaning to other people. The community is about humour, keep that in mind ;)

              • @xor@infosec.pub
                1•4 months ago

                word, “dumb ass” was supposed to be a joke too, but i edited it to be less offensive