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.
  • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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    4 months ago

    This is a new satire site, right? These days it’s getting harder and harder to differentiate between reality and fiction in tech. The rest of their posts are pretty much spot on.

  • EnderMB@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Funny enough, I probably did more software engineering as a web dev than I did as a software engineer at some companies.

    In the UK, at least, the only difference typically between a web developer and a software engineer is £15-20k in salary. Frankly, we’re all software engineers…

  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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    4 months ago

    This is not a new kind of policy for Tinder. In the past, PhDs in Social Sciences were banned for impersonating ‘doctors’.

    How were they impersonating doctors? How does Tinder verify any of these claims?

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