A programmer who's getting paid a management salary.
That software engineer conned someone into giving him more money.
by phrebh January 23, 2004
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The process of creating and developing a piece of software for distribution.
The company's software engineering team developed a program to share files.
by jordan October 9, 2003
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A widely used noun that is a oxymoron. Software cannot be engineered.
I rigorously derived a mathematically provable peice of psuedo-code. (Yeah, right...)
by S. Rittenhouse February 2, 2004
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1. An engineering discipline that is increasingly turning into a commodity much like cattle farming in the agriculture industry.

2. Disposable code factories, not cost effective to reuse or refurbish.
If those software engineers don't get the project done by the deadline, we will replace them with ones from India.
by Snowcat October 10, 2003
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process which involves a sledge hammer and microsoft os.
fatal error one oh one..hmmm,guess i better do some software engineering..
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one who is an engineer of software and spends 20 percent of his/her day doing so the other 80 percent is looking up porn!
what did you do at work today bob? oh nothing just "booted my harddrive"
by Dr. Fatz February 2, 2004
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The process of designing and developing a piece of binary code that does stuff like sharing MP3s, creating popups, sending out spams...
software engineering? It's more like software degenerating!
by Billy Gate January 23, 2004
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