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Re:Do you know any programmers who exhibit these personality... by elai on Monday August 25, 2008 @09:15PM (#286642)
I used to be like that, and I still am in many ways. The real reason?

He does not give a shit about the minutiae of life. He just doesn't care in an intrinsic level. He does not get satisfaction out of it. And that is a good thing in the long run, because those kind of tasks, as important as they may seem to some, really get you nowhere in life. Let the bureaucrats be bureaucrats and create things like java.

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Re:Do you know any programmers who exhibit these personality... by learninglisp on Tuesday August 26, 2008 @11:32AM (#287166)
The irony is that it is easy for this sort of person to live only for the day, to not be materialistic, etc. All of the things that are in the Sermon on the Mount, but not practiced by the church at large.

This sort of person truly has meat and drink that other people know nothing about. Just watch out for the focus to shift and for the pendulum to swing the other way....

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