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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!

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...
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...