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Re: Ask HN: Why did you start programming?

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post #18

I started out writing perl scripts to download porn. Clicking through to every page of various free galleries and manually saving things was hard work, so I figured there had to be some way to make the computer do that for me. Still makes me proud just thinking about it.

The best thing I heard today :)

Re: Ask HN: Why did you start programming?

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post #18

I started out writing perl scripts to download porn. Clicking through to every page of various free galleries and manually saving things was hard work, so I figured there had to be some way to make the computer do that for me. Still makes me proud just thinking about it.

Ha, that's awesome, well done.

Re: Ask HN: Why did you start programming?

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When I left school I went to work for a RnD organization and was offered the same job (research assistant) in two departments one was math modeling and one was in the solids transport section

I knew some one from school who was in this section and having to crawl inside of of the pneumatic pipeline transport test rig for 1/2 a mile to unstick a stuck capsule didn't sound fun.

So I chose math modeling.

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