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How to be a real programmer

Excuse me, real *developer*, pardon - real *software engineer*, con permiso - real *hacker*

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David Tate
Mar 25, 2024
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You work with idiots.

It took you a while to notice, but one day, it just hit you. Not one of them was a member of ACM or IEEE. And they didn’t seem to read anything from your required canon of coding…

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