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Re:Ask HN: Explain to non-techies what you do: Programmer? D... by derefr on Sunday October 03, 2010 @07:03PM (#1753920)
What do you do when you meet someone who preempts you with the same approach?
Re:Ask HN: Explain to non-techies what you do: Programmer? D... by mahmud on Sunday October 03, 2010 @07:09PM (#1753937)
"Like everyone else, I hunch over a laptop and send emails all day :-) We're slaves to the machine, my friend, and I have done my part to enable them."

Really, I don't do anything in particular, I just project my inner paradoxical mix of shame and pride in my short, eventful but otherwise checkered career as a jack of all trades.