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Eljay-Adobe
  1. about 10,000 in some dev capacity (including black box testers, white box testers, user experience designers, quality developers, et cetera).

  2. about 16,000 employees total.

  3. professionally since 1984. I wrote my first program -- well, technically, I contributed changes to an existing program called Oregon Trail -- in 1976, on the TIES system, which was an HP minicomputer written in HP 2000A BASIC.

  4. I'm interested in agile engineering practices, clean code, comparisons of light-weight management processes (like Scrum) "in theory" contrasted to "in practice", functional programming (specifically of languages designed for functional programming foremost, rather than doing awkward functional programming in non-functional programming languages), domain specific language (the development thereof), all sorts of programming languages, evolution of the industry as there is more cloud, more web-based applications, more technologies.

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Blaine Osepchuk • Edited

I died of dysentery (among other things) many times during my lunch breaks in elementary school so that's awesome that you had a hand in that game (and thank you for your comments).