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Programmers
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Yeah, young coders abound, but mostly only string together preassembled digital beads, and even today's brightest young nerdlets aren't immune to eventual wrinkles. As for real experts, well, as the dawn of the computer age recedes, so too have the hairlines of your true computer wizards, the males I mean. We females never change, we are eternally young.
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― Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 133, Issue 1 & 2, January-February 2013
― Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 133, Issue 1 & 2, January-February 2013
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The thing about Web companies is there's always something severely fucked-up. There is always an outage, always lost data, always compromised customer information, always a server going offline. You work with these clugey internal tools and patch together work-arounds to compensate for the half-assed, rushed development, and after a while the fucked-upness of the whole enterprise becomes the status quo. VPs insecure that they're not as in touch as they need to be with conditions on the ground in
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― Blueprints of the Afterlife
― Blueprints of the Afterlife