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Le me, on the phone with a crooter going over my résumé for the first time (because they only "came across" it, they didn't read it):

Crooter: Tell me about your experience at Xxx Robotics. Was it more front end or back end?

Me: IT. WAS. A. ROBOT. It didn't have a front or back end.

Crooter: O....kay... And what database did you use there?

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That gave me the best bad idea ever: a four-legged robot. The front legs are controlled by Javascript; the rear by PL/pgSQL.

These robots were water based. I'm kicking myself for not putting on my trollface and saying "Well, the back end (i.e., the thruster bit) was handled by our firmware guys; all my work was on the main control unit in the front end of the robot..."

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