Common traits of the programmer developer

1. They like to read comic strips and carry on doing so into old age

2. They don't like sports that you need to dress up for

No tennis, no squash, golf maybe, hiking definitely

3. Eat three square meals a day : Pizza, Pizza, Pizza

4. Never work a 9-5 shift.

shouldn't that be 3 round meals?

5) are disorganised themselves yet can't stand it in others

6) They are known to have multiple personalities, chief of which is the guru

symptoms : frequently say cool, peace, brother
[ December 13, 2004: Message edited by: Helen Thomas ]

(Hey!! I like tennis)

7) Frequently make jokes about if conditions and while loops in real life, AND find it funny

8) Indulge in Meaningless Drivel all the time.

9)And when the boss knocks on the door they say, hmmm, That's weird. I thought I fixed it.

10) Drink coffee!!!

- m

Originally posted by Jeroen Wenting:
shouldn't that be 3 round meals?

5) are disorganised themselves yet can't stand it in others

That squire meals if you live on a tallship, me matey

Originally posted by Helen Thomas:
6) They are known to have multiple personalities, chief of which is the guru

symptoms : frequently say cool, peace, brother

[ December 13, 2004: Message edited by: Helen Thomas ]

Whenever an object oriented purest/guru start talking about how OOP is better then procedural I become psychotic; You mess with a psycho you end up dead and those who couldn't live drown in a turtles head.

Who hasn't worked with psychos ? :shrug:

Bosses are psychotic it has been scientifically proven. Or they wouldn't be bosses. The psychoism that Gerald describes is of a different kind.

I'm right and that's the end of the matter

Unfortunately, some of the latter kind end up being bosses. Programmers who end up being bosses tend to fall in this category IMHO.It's the on-off switches they've been programmed with.
[ December 13, 2004: Message edited by: Helen Thomas ]

11) You buy your children or significant other a video game for Christmas, knowing full well you will play it at least as much as them. (This also applies to other geeky toys like Legos.)

12) Typically they don't dress well

13.) enter customer building with the ultimative plan to push forward work today thousands of miles. 4 hours later they suddenly realize that they've done nothing productive so far, except to log into customer network. Then staying there until 22:00 and having pushed forward work in more or less regular amounts

you do consultancy for the government Axel?
Arnel, that all depends on your definition of "well" in the context of dressing

Love to hike.
Love coffee.
Love American football.
Did I mention that I love American football?
Love to solve complex puzzles, for fun or for pay. (prefer the later, when the mortgage is due)
Have worked with more than one psycho over the years.
Am a devote geek, loving all info technical, even if it is not relevant to anything in my life.

[ December 14, 2004: Message edited by: Ray Marsh ]

Originally posted by Jeroen Wenting:
you do consultancy for the government Axel?

Even I am professional enough to comment about my customers on the internet.
Ok. At the moment some great online design guidelines whose consequences I haven't seen keep me being productive and busy contributor of our economy until 23:30.

life sucks