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I've been programming for quite a long time - since I was about twelve or so. Of course no one in there right mind would hire a seventeen year-old programmer (even one with five years experience), so I got a job as a PC support technician. And like many other technician-wanna-be-developers, I absolutely hated it. But in retrospect, I did get some pretty fun stories out of it. Although none as entertaining as this one, from Brent Railey's Technician Support days: [expand full text]
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re: But It's All Plugged In

2004-06-07 14:57 • by Phil Scott
Oh man, if I had a nickle for everytime we found a power strip plugged into itself.

Probably the funniest was the UPS plugged a power strip that was ultimately plugged into the UPS. That way, even if the power goes out, the UPS will continue charging itself.

Re: But It's All Plugged In

2009-09-25 17:56 • by SonicLover (unregistered)
Wouldn't plugging a power strip into itself cause the whole thing to collapse into an electric black hole that would suck up all the electrons in the vicinity?

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Re: But It's All Plugged In

2010-01-14 18:48 • by darren71
Programming since you were 12 doesn't mean you have 5 years programming experience, unless you were working full time during that period as a programer. I'm sure you were in school for most of that time.

Re: But It's All Plugged In

2010-02-05 15:01 • by Todd C (unregistered)
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I've met people with '5 years of programming experience' and some of them qualify more as '1 year of programming experience 5 times over.'

Re: But It's All Plugged In

2010-02-26 12:45 • by Aaron Dufour (unregistered)
Worth noting that I got a job programming at 18. Its becoming more and more ok now, especially since I had some classes in computer science in high school.
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