Why Programmers don’t have a High Social Status?

Re:Why Programmers don’t have a High Social Status? by zedshaw on Saturday December 31, 2011 @03:02AM (#3410461)

  > Give the work a programmer to another programmer, and most
  > of the time the comment will be negative about the work 
  > and the programmer.
  >
  > Artists don’t do that.
  > Sales people don’t do that.
  > MBA types don’t that.
  > Politicians do that only for joking to have votes.

Ahahahahahahahahahahhh aahahhhahahahahahhha hahah. Oh. Oh that's really good. Man, whew. For a second there I thought he was living in some parallel universe where TMZ didn't exist and he was beaming this blog post from that wonderful Utopia.

Then I realized, oh, (s)he's clueless.

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Re:Why Programmers don’t have a High Social Status? by lrobb on Saturday December 31, 2011 @08:17AM (#3410819)

interesting

original article >> "This manifests itself by a very singular phenomena: programmers hate each other. They usually bash other programmers"

your reply >> "Then I realized, oh, (s)he's clueless."

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Re:Why Programmers don’t have a High Social Status? by dextorious on Sunday January 01, 2012 @05:37AM (#3412832)

Yeah, because concluding that a specific someone that is a programmer speaks BS, totally means that you validate his argument that programmers hate and bash each other...

Ever heard of self-fulfilling prophecies?

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Re:Why Programmers don’t have a High Social Status? by mancandy on Saturday December 31, 2011 @05:13AM (#3410615)

TMZ is an intellectual disneyland for those folks.

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