Programmers of the past
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
Well, let's see... I was a professional musician, and when I got tired of boxed macaroni & cheese I next spent a decade teaching sales. In 1988 I realized I couldn't continue to stay drunk all the time (suggested for the first career, required for the second) and since PCs had now been in existence for a few years, I decided to become a programmer. And now, of course, I'm working on the next career, "life after programming." :-D
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
town drunk - like Otis on the Andy Griffith show ? mad scientist ? telemarketer! faith healer! numismatist! wild-eyed anarchist! pugilist! bovine insemination technician! investigative frotteurist! super-villain! -- modified at 10:18 Thursday 1st March, 2007
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town drunk - like Otis on the Andy Griffith show ? mad scientist ? telemarketer! faith healer! numismatist! wild-eyed anarchist! pugilist! bovine insemination technician! investigative frotteurist! super-villain! -- modified at 10:18 Thursday 1st March, 2007
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Chris Losinger wrote:
town drunk
:laugh: See above. Solidarity, brother! :-D
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
My first thought was directing traffic. I had a professor in college who always used the 4 cars stop at a 4 way stop scenario all the freaking time. I would probably stick with photography or go to medical school. Maybe I would just join the circus.
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
Likely the the exact same thing that most of them are now - unappreciated people that do all of the hard thinking and hard work that other people higher up the food chain get all the credit and cash for. :) Peace!
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
I definately would have been a composer. Probably a mediocre one, obsessed with the fact that another composer was so much more talented than I was. After many failed schemes to get ahead, It would finally be too much for me and I would scheme to kill... Oh wait, I saw that in a movie. Maybe I would have been a poor Irish stowaway on a large early 20th century cruise liner when it hits an Iceberg...
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
Most likely, I'd be a vagabond.
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
I don't know. I really cannot imagine anything else. I would probably be jobless.
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I'd've probably been some sort of engineer. I'd guess it's the most common degree among my greybeard coworkers.
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I grew a beard when I was 26, and it had two solid white strips in it that looked like a Fu Manchu. Apparently I was too impatient to wait and skipped right past the grey period at an early age. :-D
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
Just beat me to it. I was about to ask "What would've been your profession if comupters were never invented?" Yours look almost the same. So I give up. :) And my reply for your post: Not sure about others, but I'd have become a painter :-D drawing beautiful objects. Remember Dicaprio - Titanic? :rolleyes:
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I don't know. I really cannot imagine anything else. I would probably be jobless.
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chef ( as in a restaurant chef ) why ? Because a developing a recipe is like developing a program, one must find a "solution" to a "problem", abstracted to the actual running or cooking of the recipe which is cooked by a cook. A recipe is the source code and the cook ( and the kitchen ) is the compiler and computer. and remember, garbage in garbage out apply.
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
We would be like Bob Cratchit in Scrooge's shop. Check out the similarities: Crachit had to remind Scrooge to pay him. Anyone who is a consultant, knows this process very well. :wtf: Crachit had to basically beg Scrooge to put a log on the fire. How many have froze in a data center? Crachit never had a vacation. Do you remember the last time you got vacation. If so, do you remember the last one that you took without your boss trying to make you feel guilty of leaving your coworkers to fend for themselves. That's only the beginning.