I code, but it hasn't been advantageous to call myself a programmer for a while now.
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Poll: Are you a Programmer?
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Re: Poll: Are you a Programmer?
#12Hm, what's this poll trying to find out or measure by asking this? Also, what's "C+"?
Re: Poll: Are you a Programmer?
#13I code, but it hasn't been advantageous to call myself a programmer for a while now.
Why not? What do you find advantageous to call yourself instead.
At my former job, a programmer is the guy who transforms this instruction into Java code: "The 16th digit in the CSV is a field with 1 representing that the student is excused from the English speaking exam. Such students are to have their English written exam score proportionately increased such that it makes up 100% of the point allocation for the English subject, but it is not to be altered in reports showing sub-subject scores." A software engineer wrote that instruction. My company hired me as a software engineer, not a programmer (to the extent we had any of those, they worked in low-wage countries).
I do not call myself a programmer around consulting clients because I charge much more money than my programming skills can justify. Most of them do not need a title to understand my skill set, since they asked for me in the first place, and to the extent I have one it is as "the guy doing X for us" (X is usually a combination of programming and marketing).
"Founder" isn't too big in Japan, so I usually introduce myself as some variant of "Owner of a company." It is ridiculously superior to "programmer" in terms of social status and sets me up for an automatic conversation topic (given my age and pallor, "How the heck did that happen!?" is a common one).
Re: Poll: Are you a Programmer?
#14Nope. I'm a web designer and I have some interest in programing, but all I know is a little Actionscript. I come here for the high quality discussion on the articles I do understand, and I read the occasional programming story just to see if I can get anything out of it.
Have you noticed any desire to program more since you started coming here?
Re: Poll: Are you a Programmer?
#15Hm, what's this poll trying to find out or measure by asking this? Also, what's "C+"?
Probably looking at demographics on HN, to get a feel for the community.
Re: Poll: Are you a Programmer?
#16Hm, what's this poll trying to find out or measure by asking this? Also, what's "C+"?
Pretty simple ... what proportion of this sites readers are programmers. (it doesn't really matter what you call yourself)... a snapshot of HN's reader base.
Re: Poll: Are you a Programmer?
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not? What do you find advantageous to call yourself instead.
At my former job, a programmer is the guy who transforms this instruction into Java code: "The 16th digit in the CSV is a field with 1 representing that the student is excused from the English speaking exam. Such students are to have their English written exam score proportionately increased such that it makes up 100% of the point allocation for the English subject, but it is not to be altered in reports showing sub-…
Interesting. At my job, a programmer (well, software engineer, but there's not all that much of a distinction) is someone who translates this instruction into some combination of C++, Python, Sawzall, JavaScript, and various custom languages:
"Make users happy."
Re: Poll: Are you a Programmer?
#18You'd probably be better off asking a more general question. Non-programmers are not likely to click a link, "Are you a programmer," while programmers are probably 10x more likely to click such a link.
It might be tacky, but it would work well-enough to just rephrase it as "How many non-programmers read HN?" and have a single voting option. We can assume that HN's uniqs/month, minus that number, are the number of programmers.
Re: Poll: Are you a Programmer?
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
At my former job, a programmer is the guy who transforms this instruction into Java code: "The 16th digit in the CSV is a field with 1 representing that the student is excused from the English speaking exam. Such students are to have their English written exam score proportionately increased such that it makes up 100% of the point allocation for the English subject, but it is not to be altered in reports showing sub-…
Interesting. At my job, a programmer (well, software engineer, but there's not all that much of a distinction) is someone who translates this instruction into some combination of C++, Python, Sawzall, JavaScript, and various custom languages: "Make users happy."
This may be a philosophical point, but unless you're a game designer, that sentence has to end with "...by increasing the odds that, and the ease with which, they will succeed in their goals." You can make people happy by just giving them opiates :)
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