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  • J Josh Smith

    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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    Eytukan
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    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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    • D Dario Solera

      I don't know. I really cannot imagine anything else. I would probably be jobless.

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      Funny!:laugh:. Btw,I acknowledge that you are currently employed.:rolleyes: :laugh:.


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      • M Maximilien

        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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        That's funny because that's exactly what I would be if I wasn't a programmer.

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          That's funny because that's exactly what I would be if I wasn't a programmer.

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          Me, too! My family is continually having to assist me in debugging the culinary code that I create.

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          • J Josh Smith

            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.

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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.

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              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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              • J Josh Smith

                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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                An accountant. And daily I would wish for death.

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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.

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                  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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                    Does he owe taxes too?

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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.

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                      Jon Sagara
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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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                        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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                        I always take 2+ weeks between contracts. It's the only thing that keeps you sane.

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                        • J Josh Smith

                          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.

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                          • J Josh Smith

                            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'd have become a VB programmer.

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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

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                              Both keep the pipe ready always. You mean it?

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                                a duck

                                She is a witch !

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                                Steve McLenithan
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                                and why do ducks float? :p

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                                • J Josh Smith

                                  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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                                  Jim Crafton
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                                  Well I would have just invented the damn things!!! I mean, if the Ancient Greeks[^] could do it, how hard can it be?

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                                    Me, too! My family is continually having to assist me in debugging the culinary code that I create.

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                                    Anton Afanasyev
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                                    Food debugging....sounds fun;P


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                                    • J Josh Smith

                                      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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                                      Judah Gabriel Himango
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                                      Chimney sweep! We can get surrounded in our work, we don't have to keep clean, and we don't have to talk to people, being the anti-social people we are! Chimney sweeps unite! ;)

                                      Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit. I'm currently blogging about: The Lord's Prayer in Aramaic song (audio) The apostle Paul, modernly speaking: Epistles of Paul Judah Himango

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                                      • M Maximilien

                                        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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                                        Rhys Gravell
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                                        I used to be a professional Chef and now I'm a programmer - evolution in action?

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                                        • C Chris Losinger

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                                          Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                                          Chris Losinger wrote:

                                          super-villain!

                                          Yep, that's me. Lucky you guys that I grew up with computers, otherwise I would've started nuke wars, and burnt off the atmosphere 10 times by now. \m/

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