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tbrownaw on Aug 21, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ellen Pao: My lawsuit failed. Others won’t

Wouldn't a professional body for "programmers" be a bit like a professional body for "doctors, masseuses, hairdressers, tailors, and priests"?

All of those have something to do with working with humans, the way we all work with computers. And neither group has much else in common.

OtterCoder on Aug 21, 2017 [–]

I'd accept a job title like 'Technical Priest' or 'Code Surgeon'. One of my former bosses half-jokingly changed my title to 'Web Prophet'.

noir_lord on Aug 21, 2017 | [–]

My business card used to say <code-monkey>

Never really taken titles seriously ;).

triangleman on Aug 21, 2017 | | [–]

I take it you've seen this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYodWEKCuGg

noir_lord on Aug 22, 2017 | | [–]

That was the inspiration yep.

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