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A comment on Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (2011). Parent comment

Re:Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice... by MattGaiser on Thursday August 19, 2021 @12:01PM (#28235520)
Wouldn’t there be any number of visiting students, academics, speakers, researchers, research partners, study participants, etc?

My university was crawling with non-university people who were legitimately there.

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Re:Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice... by ModernMech on Thursday August 19, 2021 @12:35PM (#28235957)
All of those people have relationships with people already on campus, and many of them are given IDs if they're there long term. If you're just some guy with a backpack who hangs around campus for no reason and no one know what you're doing there, people are going to notice, at least where I'm from. YMMV
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