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K. You're all so technically knowledable.

So, my first guess would be that you're all programmers and whatnot.


But I know better than to assume.


BUT STILL.
I curious.

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I'm a trainee evil overlord in alternative universe K-299-Zorg.

In fact, I'll be getting my evil empire of my own next month, after the final evaluation. Can't wait.

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Whoever has a postcount of 100+ on ITT is a geek. There is no way around it haha. I do support/dev for a webapp.

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lazyness, pure and simple ;)

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My postcount is well over 100, but I'm in here since Oct 2005, so I had almost three years time. :)

My job has a lot to do with Unix, Linux, and esp. Solaris. I'm currently not doing software engineering for a living, and am happy about it, because when spending the whole day coding, there's no motivation left for working on opensource projects in my free time.
I hold a master degree in computer science (well, actually the German equivalent, diploma) and look back on 15 years of coding experience. Oh yeah, I'm also one of those few guys who were contacted by Google, CA last year for a phone screening. Maybe if I had done a little better in the exam, I would be working in Mountain View, CA right now.

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Retired/unemployed, then editor, but tech support dude before that. I was just reading an essay on Wittgenstein and the difference between "slab!" and "bring me that slab!"

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I usually pop in for reading, keeping up, and problem solving.

I'm a certified geek, computer engineering diploma with a strrong unix/linux background. I currently am labelled an "application analyst" at a law firm in Toronto, where I spend my days coding, deploy applications remotely, problem solving, and being an all around go to geek. In fact I'm relaxing at a cottage where my Blackjack 2 has fallen to EDGE and I'm still teathered with my 810 while overlooking a lake and typing this. I'm just that geeky.

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Currently creeping along a PhD in HiFU.

Before that, lectured in Computer Games tech for a London uni, and Computer Science for another London Uni.

Masters in Computer Vision, Imaging and Virtual Environments and BSc in Comp Sci.




Geek :-/

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Occupation? ;)

Web applications designer for two small companies in town and a full time high school student...

I may just be the lowest man on the totem pole here :o

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I'm currently studying Electrical & Electronical Engineering with Telecommunications at uni, here in London. (the only reason I took this degree is to end up working at Nokia !) <-- Maybe Textrat can help me out with that :)

I have a post count over 100 yet I'm no geek...yet :D

Football (the real one, not with with the quarterbacks) is my other big occupation.

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Look after computing (Linux, Solaris, WIndows), sat-comms, sonar, sea-surface and met sensors on research ships. No degree. Its sort of a hobbie that turned into a job :-)

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Registered Professional Engineer - Control Systems Engineering (Instrumentation & Automation for Process Industries)
29 years in the business

The latest word for the profession is "Mechatronics".

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I'm a professional discussion forum participator. Life is good.

:p

Tim

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heh, if you want the real thing you have to come to Finland, not US ;-)

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I thought Nokia has one R&D unit in San Diego? (Mobile Phones... not IT related, though)

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I am a "senior" programmer in a gaming company for 4+ years. I am not linux guy, but I like it a bit. My friend bought an iphone, so I bought a n810 to protest and show how much I hate apple. I like to ear how much bad itunes is haha!

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Looks like I know where I'll be heading after my degree...FINLAND! Here I come!! well...in a couple of years ;)

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At least Finland is near St. Petersburg and Tallinn.

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Riga too, been there last year a bit chilly but definitely nice. Tallin is nice as well, as long as one stays in the old town, which is not too large. St Petersburg I haven't visited it yet.

But anyway I was half serious. Maybe things will change in the future, however many new trends that affect Nokia company-wise start in finland.

The major options being Helsinki, Tampere (I spent there my first 2 years) and Oulu (too extreme for me).

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Professional Irritant, aspiring to Karel Jansens-level evil overlord.

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:-) I am a System Engineer (graduated in '96) , working with Oracle tech development and ERP implementations...

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Currently studying Software Engineering so I fit into your geek/programmer category. Have previously worked in a church doing mostly youth work, but also a bit of tech support and children's work.

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Web Developer. More front-ender oriented.

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Systems manager for High Performance Computing machines (clusters, supercomputers and compute-grids). The nice thing about this job is the fact that you get to "play" with beautiful (and expensive) hardware :)

...and graduated in 2006 (Computer Science)

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Professor at a university in the US. Supplier of evil overlords and bender of minds.

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Doctor here..

I guess i am the odd one out.

But i just love nokia and the tablets

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well well well, look who it is ;)

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I'm a cobol programmer. And I'm younger than cobol.

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Med student, to gadget happy to just go with palm right now.

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Steel wharehouseman in NJ

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Unemployed Network Engineer, Cisco and the like.
Wow, all these recent graduates and students. When I took my first Comp Sci course we actually used punch cards! Seriously.

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I'll be a medical doctor in about half a year.

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Medical doctor, but have been manager of a gait lab in a hospital and now a uni lecturer and researcher with a PhD in artificial neural networks used in clinical gait analysis. I am a biomechanist currently researching virtual rehabilitation.

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I'm an almost-retired programmer, becoming a novelist, and I got the N800 for my writing, not my programming. In fact, I have tried hard not to use my experience as a programmer to work with the N800. I prefer to be an N800 newbie and keep things simple.
- tobias d. robison, author of Raven's Gift http://ravensGift.com

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Well, I am not quite punch card...
Programmed on
TI-994A, Vic 20, Commodore 64 (hex, binary with compiler, and basic), Tandy TRS-80 models 1-111, Ace Franklin 1000, Apple 2e (yay turtle graphics!!), then configured a lab and taught hypercard classes on Mac SE's, then took classes, in turbo pascal, fortran, and cobol, Played with and then consulted on Windows 3.1, 3.11, NT 3.51, blah blah blahh, worked at Univ of Oregon AAA as network and hardware tech while attending while taking physics, mathematics, and electronics, ran majordomo and web servers for AAA while learning c++, did 3-d animation (3ds-max, softimage, form-z, too many others) and special effects development, video devel, audio gen and multimedia production for a group in Eugene, OR while learning javascript and c-shell scripting for cgi gateways . Corp logo and print material devel, web site devel, and then worked for an elementary school as tech coordinator, and then the school district... then a library, running HP-UX servers and teaching the public about the 'real history' of the net, email, productivity, etc. way too much...
Now, believe it or not, I am managing/buying a convenience store, on an island in the North Puget Sound. Still have a computer consulting business, but mostly see existing clients, and am not actively seeking new ones, as I put 60-80 hours a week into my store. sometimes think I must be clinically insane....

my n810 keeps me on track with two teenage boys, my wife, my ex-wife, work, consults, oh, and I am the Scoutmaster for our local troop...

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Er, time warp here, folks. Currently a State official, was Presidential appointee (one of thousands) in Reagan Administration (OK, it was late in the administrfation and he didn't know what he was doing) and started programming w/punch cards about 45 years ago. I would retire, but my wife would put me to work, and we certainly wouldn't want that. . . K.

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I'm so old that when I started programming we only had zeros!

Occupation: Manager of an R&D department (mechanical engineering) for a multinational company. Did some sysadmin for CAD purposes on an Apollo Domain_OS system some years ago. Anyone ever heard of these workstations? (HP took them over in the late 90's)

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Currently unemployed/semi-retired/on sabbatical...

Was previously a database analyst/administrator for 23 years. Guess what? When I got out of university, the one thing that I did *not* want to be was a DBA -- but it was the first job offered to me, and since I was tired of being a poor/starving student -- the rest is history! :)

P.S. Yes, I am old enough that I used punched cards for the first 2 years of university :(

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Sys admin for a kick *** company, after a few years as a sys admin for a horrible (web hosting) company and a year of tech support at the same place. Also a few years making pizzas. I've worked at 3 places for a total of about 8 years.

Can I count myself as a part time student if I've taken 2 classes in the past 3 years? I really hope to go back (maybe even graduate) before 30.

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Who? Where?

EDIT: I confess. I'm just a Hack Irritant. Career-wise I'm actually a Professional Sleeper. In fact, I'm almost on the clock now...