Programmers of the past
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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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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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I used to be a professional Chef and now I'm a programmer - evolution in action?
Rhys A cult is a religion with no political power. Tom Wolfe Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. Louis D. Brandeis
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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 I wanted to be an architect, but didn't get the necessary entrance scores. I think most programmers have a desire to build things, and most like to look back and say 'hey thats neat' when they are finished. So my answer : builders, artists, something like that. Actually I wish I was an 18th century economics student studying under Adam Smith. Now that would have been fun and guaranteed a dame or two at a party. Those guys were radicals at the time. Of course I would like the hindsight of 2 more centuries of economic thought to take back with me. But I guess if you're going to take future knowledge back into the past, who can go past being a stock speculator? I could have made a fortune in the South Sea bubble and come up with Ricardian comparative advantage theory.
Bruce Chapman iFinity.com.au - Websites and Software Development Plithy remark available in Beta 2
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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 could have been * a maths teacher * a foreign languages teacher/translator/interpreter, or something in that domain * musician * accountant/computer
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Edsger Dijkstra
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and why do ducks float? :p
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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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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
Shog9 wrote:
Reading law is like finding worms in your Rice Krispies... for fun.
All right, dammit. Come over here and dig that disgusting image out of my head right now, mister. X|
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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[^]
...architects?
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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...
I would have been a hayseed kid on a desert planet run by gangster alien slugs...
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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 think they would be the 'same as they are now'.. Thinkers AND Have fun trying to to whatever comes to mind... It WAS MUCH easier with a Intel 4004! Well, except for the memory limits!
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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 what all of the men in my family have been: a craftsman. My ancestors have been machine operators, tool & die workers, made wooden cigar boxes, and there was probably a wheelwright in there somewhere (given my last name). Interesting; I just noticed that most of us have treated this as if you asked "What job would you have had in times before..." :)
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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[^]
Josh Smith wrote:
What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
In "the old days" sons usually followed in their father's footsteps. In which case I would have been a nurse working in an old people's home wiping sh*t up after incontinent people. Thank God computers _are_ around and we don't follow in their footsteps! :-D
Never argue with an imbecile; they bring you down to their level, and beat you with experience.
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I would have been what all of the men in my family have been: a craftsman. My ancestors have been machine operators, tool & die workers, made wooden cigar boxes, and there was probably a wheelwright in there somewhere (given my last name). Interesting; I just noticed that most of us have treated this as if you asked "What job would you have had in times before..." :)
Software Zen:
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Interesting; I just noticed that most of us have treated this as if you asked "What job would you have had in times before..."
Yeah, I noticed that too. Very odd. There was a clearly worded spec, but the resultant product was way off base... ;P
: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'd probably have ended up in either medicine (which runs in my family) or coporate finance (my Dad made me promise never to become an accountant!).
Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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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[^]
Dead. That's what I'd be. There is so much about my body that is barely functional, that, if I was born 50 years earlier, I'd never have lived to be 50. (I'll turn 50 late this month...I hope:omg:) If my body would have survived, I might have been killed as a heretic, since I think so far outside the box so often.
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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.
Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad
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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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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[^]