The OED told the BBC that it was beyond the software engineer's control to determine how the word should be said.

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"We know Reader has a devoted following who will be very sad to see it go, " said software engineer Alan Green on the Google Reader blog.

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Essentially, demand for cloud jobs maps closely to IT overall, led by such positions as software engineer, Java developer, systems engineer and enterprise architect.

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However, ten years ago Microsoft was an icon, it was a star, and it was the company that any self-respecting software engineer wanted to work for.

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Could it be a role as counter-intuitive as the software quality assurance engineer, as revealed by Careerbliss?

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"We focused a lot on usability and copied a lot of gamer interfaces so that users can pick it up pretty quickly, " said Sandia engineer Justin Garretson, the lead software developer.

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By the way, it is notable that you have no evidence to even back up your sensational assertion about software engineer opinion on patent law.

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Google claims it collected wi-fi data because of rogue code mistakenly included in the software by a lone engineer.

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