this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2024

895 points (98.1% liked)

Programmer Humor

19623 readers

1 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

Keep content in english
No advertisements
Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Feyter@programming.dev

anzo@programming.dev

BurningTurtle@programming.dev

pylapp@programming.dev

895

As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

343 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

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

Generally speaking software development is not a part of IT.

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

I'd say in English there is more of a difference, in my native language the term is more blurry I'd say, for a random person it just sounds as "computers", and to most people that's all they care about.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In English that more general word for the entire industry is “tech”. Thats the closest comparison to just using the word “computers”.

[–] namelivia@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Ah true, thank you! Then it is tech what I say