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[^]
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.
-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
dan neely wrote:
my greybeard coworkers
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.
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I would very likely have been a lawyer. I am something of a pedant and stickler for technicalities. I was inspired in high school when I read Dickens' David Copperfield, and the firm of proctors he joined. We lived in proctor street at the time, and it seemed a little like a message to me. Stupidly I allowed myself to be dissuaded by a friend who tried studying law after school, and I took up something I knew a lot about and was interesting. Now that I am studying law, I cannot see how anyone can find anything boring about it.
Brady Kelly wrote:
I cannot see how anyone can find anything boring about it.
Boring? Donno 'bout that. Chilling? Yeah. Reading law is like finding worms in your Rice Krispies... for fun. :~
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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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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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.
Ed, It sounds like you need to find a better employer!
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
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An accountant. And daily I would wish for death.
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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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.
ednrgc wrote:
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.
End of this past July. I had a week or so off between jobs, so I didn't feel guilty or beholden to anyone. Best vacay I've had in years! :)
Jon Sagara Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. -- Unknown Blog | Site | Articles
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ednrgc wrote:
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.
End of this past July. I had a week or so off between jobs, so I didn't feel guilty or beholden to anyone. Best vacay I've had in years! :)
Jon Sagara Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. -- Unknown Blog | Site | Articles
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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 would have been a gigolo, or a fireman.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
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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I would have been a gigolo, or a fireman.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
Jon Sagara wrote:
a duck
She is a witch !
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