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Computers are the worst." />
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<p>As a software developer that gets loaned out to other companies, I tend to have quite a few &ldquo;first day on the job&rdquo; days. Today was one of them, joining a team working hard to get a new bio-lab robot on the market.</p>
<p>As is typical with joining a new project, I spent the entire first day trying to figure out why nearly nothing in the README actually worked.</p>
<p>Computers are the worst.</p>
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