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mgraybosch
12y ago
I chose the wrong day job, too, but it seemed like a good idea when I was 18 and my family's idea of a good job was bartending. I was a failed musician who took up writing, and I had just enough sense to realize that I'd need a da
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My coworkers think I'm some kind of guru. They've never worked with a real guru, so they mistake me for a the real deal because I read Design Patterns once. You should feel sorry for them. :)
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12y ago
Headphones and power metal are my most reliable coping mechanism.
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12y ago
Flawed spec? Oh, please . My first job didn't even have a spec. It had two reams of paper worth of MicroFocus COBOL listings and a directive to implement that code's functionality for Windows using Visual Basic 6. It also had a
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12y ago
Hi, deaconblues. I'm guy who write this article. I can't speak for anybody but myself, but developers who don't live and breathe code probably don't work in the major tech hubs or for startups. I'm a contractor who