How to Use programmer in a Sentence
programmer
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Because the programmer leaves a part of himself in the code.
—Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2024
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Contrast that to the rush to recruit coders during the tech boom and all the perks offered to programmers.
—Leonardo Bevilacqua, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 June 2024
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But programmers do this kind of sharing all the time in their software.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2022
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Even so, the episode with the legendary programmer John Carmack has an unhinged director’s-cut feel to it.
—Sheon Han, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
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But a maker—say, a programmer or writer—needs at least half a day to get real work done.
—Steve Mollman, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2024
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As a programmer, what genres best lend themselves most to this?
—Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
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Remember, programmers can only watch a film for the first time once.
—John Nein, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
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In lieu of a real Neeson programmer to soothe the January blues, Plane will do.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 11 Jan. 2023
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Rather, a human programmer feeds it a vast amount of online data that’s kept on a server.
—Jen Christensen, CNN, 2 Feb. 2023
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There are many types of AI that can be leased without needing to hire a programmer or messing with big data.
—Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2022
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Simon, a Chengdu native who moved to the U.S. at the age of twenty-five (his first home for a few months was in Elmhurst), is a computer programmer.
—Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
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Describing the slate in just a few words is both difficult and easy, said senior programmer John Nein.
—Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Dec. 2022
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Now, knowing Python is the equivalent of table stakes for a programmer.
—Ulrik Juul Christensen, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
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So far this year, the track has gotten the fourth-most adds on its radio impact date (the day radio programmers can add a single to rotation).
—Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2024
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Back in the day, limited compute resources forced programmers to write lean code.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2024
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After meeting with the Databricks team a decade ago, Horowitz handed the startup $14 million for its Series A to get the ball rolling—a sizable check for a team of academics and programmers.
—Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
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On a brisk morning in Düsseldorf, Mario Klingemann, a 53-year-old artist and programmer, boarded a train to Munich.
—Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 25 Apr. 2023
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But the Screen Actors Guild strike has cut to the very core of these festivals’ identities, forcing programmers to create pizazz out of movie choice alone.
—Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
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Kaleem Aftab, the Red Sea’s international programmer is an old friend of mine and has been following my work since my very first film.
—Martin Dale, Variety, 6 Dec. 2022
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To think like a computer programmer is to step outside of how a human might approach a task and imagine what sort of prompting a machine would need to get the same thing done.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2022
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Sports leagues and programmers have embraced streaming as the future of television.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
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If the design or wireframe doesn't say ‘user hits a start button to go to the next screen’ many programmers will build both screens but not include a start button because it wasn't asked for.
—Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
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From a recorded news report: Ammaar Reshi asked a computer programmer to write a book.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2023
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But after a third title in the series was abandoned, programmer Tim Cain started to spearhead something new in-house.
—K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 10 Oct. 2022
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In America, radio programmers don't program you as a Black person as rock 'n' roll.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 24 May 2023
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Disney spent the money and did the work, and both audiences and critics rejected this old-school studio programmer.
—Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
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The firm hired many programmers and math majors and had a geeky, collegial culture; late-night chess tournaments were common.
—Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
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The Web site Stack Overflow was created in 2008 as a place for programmers to answer one another’s questions.
—James Somers, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2023
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Last year Microsoft released a coding tool that uses GPT to auto-complete chunks of code for a programmer.
—Will Knight, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
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In related news, it was announced that the festival’s head of programs and documentary programmer, Jenny Neighbour, will be leaving after 35 years with the organization.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 June 2024
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