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
    5729·
    9 months ago

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

    also php programmers who call themselves anything?

    • TheHarpyEagle@lemmy.world
      401·
      9 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.

        • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
          1·
          8 months ago

          Never used it in over 23 years of using PHP. Also, I don’t thing that has existed anymore for the past 10 years or so?

          Seriously, if we’re going to do this, can we also bitch about painful java apps from 10 years ago, or the hilariously shitty modules in node from 10 years ago? I can go on for a while, but you hopefully get the point.

            • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
              1·
              8 months ago

              My confusion is that you hate it tosay because someone over a decade ago wrote 10 times the same complaint that was mostly fixed already since about a decade ago

        • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
          11·
          9 months ago

          That is literally a decade old article with basically 1 complaint that sometimes functions are strpos() and sometimes str_len(). Anything else it’s saying is “I don’t even know how to say it”. Really now? Any of your complaints have been fixed since about a decade ago, so why don’t you give it a try?

          • xor@infosec.pub
            11·
            9 months ago

            lol, no…
            also this is a joke sub so stop trying to sea lion me about it.
            also your “summation” of the article is pretty stupid

    • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      9 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@lemmy.world
        9·
        9 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

      • xor@infosec.pub
        25·
        9 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@programming.dev
          32·
          9 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
            27·
            9 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

            • adr1an@programming.devM
              1·
              9 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·
                9 months ago

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

            • astraeus@programming.dev
              21·
              9 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.

              • xor@infosec.pub
                13·
                9 months ago

                bruh, this is programming_humor… chill, im sure you’re a fine human being

    • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      76·
      9 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.