Hippies, Nerds, and Lumpenprogrammers

Re:Hippies, Nerds, and Lumpenprogrammers by swombat on Friday August 01, 2008 @01:10PM (#264208)

This article is a load of crappy overgeneralisations that don't match to any of my experiences of myself or others. It reminds me of the scene from Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas where some whacky doctor classifies the "marijuana culture" as "Square, Hip, Cool and Groovy".

I can't quite fathom why anyone would vote this trash up.

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Re:Hippies, Nerds, and Lumpenprogrammers by marijn on Friday August 01, 2008 @02:01PM (#264261)

Upvoted you, since I can't downvote the article.

Anyway, I really need to work on pronouncing a clear programmer personality. Am I a hippy? Am I a nerd? I'm so confused. I just hope I'm not a lumpenprogrammer!

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Re:Hippies, Nerds, and Lumpenprogrammers by qwph on Friday August 01, 2008 @09:50PM (#264700)

I appear to be a hippie, for this definition of hippie, anyway...

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Re:Hippies, Nerds, and Lumpenprogrammers by andreyf on Saturday August 02, 2008 @01:20AM (#264790)

Most of it was kind of silly, but this part felt close to home:

For hippie programmers, the problem is solved when they've figured out how to solve it rather than later, when the work is finished and the problem no longer exists.

Not sure how that makes me a hippy, though...

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Re:Hippies, Nerds, and Lumpenprogrammers by bvttf on Friday August 01, 2008 @05:33PM (#264516)

By accident? Sorry! But I'd also like to be able to save articles without upvoting them.

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Re:Hippies, Nerds, and Lumpenprogrammers by BrandonM on Saturday August 02, 2008 @03:35AM (#264864)

Right click... "Bookmark This Link", at least in Firefox

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