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back engineer

An *ultra boss-level nerd that can unlicense, break, and optionally repurpose software (and/or hardware) that other nerds made.
The nerdness level of the product creators shall not matter to the back engineer; it is considered pwnable by the back engineer, whether the soft/hardware in question was shipped by basic low-tier/mediocre nerds, or by their superior mega-nerds and the like - the back engineer will unpack and dissect it with as least effort as required, because efficiency.

The back engineer may enjoy the following (not necessarily in that order): writing better code than u and ur dad combined, shitty memes, repurposing products, occasionally making stuff crash, caffeine, and/or gaining unfair advantage while learning new curse words from other players online.

Since we know back engineers are better programmers than most qualified nerds, they are known to ship highly stable and robust shit that will may very likely wreck other nerds' life's, turning them very dark and miserable, if those happen to attempt to back engineer the already-back-engineered shit themselves.

* ultra-boss = the very final ranking a nerd could possibly achieve in a single lifespan
- We can't go sleep now, we got some back engineering work to do.
- So what if you don't publish the source? They will just back engineer it.
- f*ck this shit imma back engineer that ass
by inengineerswetrust May 8, 2024
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The First Law of Engineering

The premise that 1) Anything can be fixed by hitting it with a hammer, and 2) If you cannot fix the problem, you do not have a big enough hammer.

See also: Percussive Maintenance, Harmonic Persuasion.
"It's The First Law of Engineering, Leonidas,” Granadica sent. “If you can’t fix it, you’re not using a big enough hammer.”

-Granadica in The Hot Gate, book three of the Troy Rising series by John Ringo
by Western_Rambler November 5, 2020
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aston university engineering academy

A school located in Gosta Green, B7. It’s engineering based but it’s still shit innit. Kids think they’re bad but really aren’t. Fix up blud
Person 1: Oh I got a place at aston university engineering academy.

Person 2: That’s rah peak I heard the teachers shag the students uno.
by AUEADefinitions February 5, 2020
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jet engine ejaculation

when you ejaculate so fast and viciously it goes into someone’s eye and blinds them
“did you hear about betty her boyfriend has a jet engine ejaculation
by testicularbreath October 15, 2023
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maintenance engineer

David trynna polish a turd by calling himself a Maintenance Engineer.
by JP4RMHP September 23, 2020
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Fumez the engineer

by Certifiedexeh August 11, 2023
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How-To Engineer

It describes the new generation of youth that can't endure the drudge work different engineering disciplines require to master and adopt a way of googling and copy/pasting their way to saying I'm good at something
(person A starts coding two days ago)
A: I managed to make a calculator software with python, I should totally apply for a software engineering job
B: You're not a software engineer buddy, you're a How-To Engineer
by noisy96 March 8, 2019
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