I guess technically I was a hardware architect for 10 of them in the middle there. Although I was still writing a bunch of code, for money, so...
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My first professional project was a patient database for my father, written in BASIC on an Amstrad 1512 with dual floppy disks and no hard drive.
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I didn't really know what I was doing, but it was the first electronic database & analysis program in the hospital - his previous "database" was a big paper ledger book. My sister also earned some money by typing the data from that ledger into the database.
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The hospital later made a proper database for a squillion dollars, but we defined the spec!
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While at Altera our team classified ourselves as hardware engineers because it paid better than software. We *were* doing architecture with, but also place and route etc. that needed HW knowledge, so...
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I prefer "Code Prostitute"
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Hacker Of Negotiable Virtue.
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Code Slut
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The second oldest profession?
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Anything before Y2K doesn't count.
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