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programmer

[proh-gram-er] / ˈproʊ græm ər /
NOUN
computer geek
Synonyms
WEAK
computer specialist engineer guru hacker techie
NOUN
cyberpunk
Synonyms
STRONG
engineer geek hacker
WEAK
computer nerd
NOUN
hacker
Synonyms
STRONGEST
operator technician
WEAK
application programmer computer architect computer designer computer jock key puncher systems analyst systems engineer systems programmer systems software specialist

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Programmer Nev Bourne executes the alpha test of SavePoint 2.0, a prefrontal cortex implant that uses loop quantum gravity to let users leap five seconds back in time.

From Scientific American • Jun. 20, 2023

Programmer Slavomír Labský and translation coordinator Marián Kabát wrote about some of their experience in a post on the Slovak Design Museum’s website.

From The Verge • Jan. 15, 2022

Jeff once circulated a list of “Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know.”

From The New Yorker • Dec. 3, 2018

Programmer and sometime Slate writer David Auerbach explains what went wrong with the Clinton campaign’s vaunted big-data operation.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2017

"Programmer on moral high ground; Free software is a moral issue for Richard Stallman believes in freedom and free software."

From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Williams, Sam