Serious question, not a native speaker: Why do people in the Anglosphere refer to mostly-software companies as tech companies, or to software developers as tech workers?

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[–] Aggravationstation@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

H. Daddy

[–] spamfajitas@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

My dad had the rare chance to name his position whatever he wanted, but the higher ups still rejected his choice of Grand Poobah.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Chief bit twiddler

[–] klisurovi4@midwest.social 2 points 8 months ago

I am partial to "code monkey"

On a serious note, I usually refer to myself as a developer or a software engineer when I wanna sound a bit more important.

[–] OozingPositron@feddit.cl 2 points 8 months ago

If you call them engineers I'm going to engineer your femur into two pieces.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

"Software Development Engineer"

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not only does this meme ignore the fact there's only 4 choices in Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, it doesn't even do an even number of them leaving it annoyingly lopsided

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

Should have gone with something like “HaxorMaster1447”

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