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Re:Do you get offended when people think you are a programmer? by mechanical_fish on Thursday April 16, 2009 @05:52PM (#565968)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=545530

Sometimes "programmer" carries too strong a connotation of "code monkey". I find it best to just avoid places where this is true.

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Re:Do you get offended when people think you are a programmer? by anamax on Thursday April 16, 2009 @07:15PM (#566091)
> Sometimes "programmer" carries too strong a connotation of "code monkey".

You write that like code monkey is a bad thing.

> I find it best to just avoid places where this is true.

It is good to avoid places that look down on code monkeys.

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Re:Do you get offended when people think you are a programmer? by mechanical_fish on Thursday April 16, 2009 @07:36PM (#566110)
Well, sure, okay. I'm quite happy to be called a code monkey by someone who respects what we code monkeys do. ;)
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