The 10 Types of Programmers You'll Encounter in the Field
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Can you post the link to the original article? Your blog (actually blogspot.com) is blocked by my company's web filter.
Sure thing. Here's the link: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=262[^]
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hmmmm guess I have been around a lot more.... I have met a few more types: The duelist: Can only achieve when he is challenged in a race with someone else. great as long as you have competition from another company, but not good when he competes against your own team. The oracle: Everyone turns to him for questions. He seems to know everything, or knows where to find everything. Check his history logs, Google and CP get hit 100 times a day or more. Why no one else does this, he doesn't know. I've got a few more, but I will let the others add a few first. :laugh:
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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I guess I didn't make the top ten. The closest might be "The Theoretician".
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number 11. The Wannabe Still learning, picking up snippets, hangs out with coders and talks the talk, can't yet walk the walk. Knows his limitations, tries hard not to look a fool, but sometimes caught out. There, another one for the list based upon your truly.:)
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As much as I want to be "the Ninja", I think I'm more like "the Theoretician".
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We kicked one of those out of our company a couple of months back... still cleaning up the mess :doh:
V. If I don't see you in this world, I'll see you in the next one... And don't be late. (Jimi Hendrix)
I am clever enough not to do things I am unsure of. Better to ask and thought foolish than not ask and be thought a W###er!
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hmmmm guess I have been around a lot more.... I have met a few more types: The duelist: Can only achieve when he is challenged in a race with someone else. great as long as you have competition from another company, but not good when he competes against your own team. The oracle: Everyone turns to him for questions. He seems to know everything, or knows where to find everything. Check his history logs, Google and CP get hit 100 times a day or more. Why no one else does this, he doesn't know. I've got a few more, but I will let the others add a few first. :laugh:
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Here are 2 more to add to your list. The know it all. The guy who thinks he knows it all but actually he's the office bullshitter. The brown noser. Agrees with everything the Project manager says whether it be right or wrong.
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hmmmm guess I have been around a lot more.... I have met a few more types: The duelist: Can only achieve when he is challenged in a race with someone else. great as long as you have competition from another company, but not good when he competes against your own team. The oracle: Everyone turns to him for questions. He seems to know everything, or knows where to find everything. Check his history logs, Google and CP get hit 100 times a day or more. Why no one else does this, he doesn't know. I've got a few more, but I will let the others add a few first. :laugh:
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
El Corazon wrote:
The oracle: Everyone turns to him for questions. He seems to know everything, or knows where to find everything. Check his history logs, Google and CP get hit 100 times a day or more. Why no one else does this, he doesn't know.
Sounds close to home. :->
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I am clever enough not to do things I am unsure of. Better to ask and thought foolish than not ask and be thought a W###er!
------------------------------------ Happy Primes Lead to Happy Memories. Don't Google FGI
Yes you are better off asking especially if you are a novice, I've seen complete novices either do 1 of 2 things sit at there desk pondering over something for days and the other extreme is going off and coding a complete pile of shit.
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It looks like I'm a Jekyll and Hyde type Theoretician and Code Cowboy.
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I'd love to claim "Ninja", but the trail of collateral damage points to "Cowboy". :-O
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?
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number 11. The Wannabe Still learning, picking up snippets, hangs out with coders and talks the talk, can't yet walk the walk. Knows his limitations, tries hard not to look a fool, but sometimes caught out. There, another one for the list based upon your truly.:)
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Even though I make a living as programmer, I would have to agree with the Wannabe title. I am too damn humble to be anything else and I would get my ass kicked by all of the real programmers if they heard me speaking otherwise :) At least for me, if I start to get too cocky, then I fall right on my face and make an ass out of myself.
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We kicked one of those out of our company a couple of months back... still cleaning up the mess :doh:
V. If I don't see you in this world, I'll see you in the next one... And don't be late. (Jimi Hendrix)
Maybe wannabe isn't a good title then. How about, noob. I think Noob is just fine.
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What's with the "56b" scattered between the text? Is that some new thing to identify steal?
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
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Even though I make a living as programmer, I would have to agree with the Wannabe title. I am too damn humble to be anything else and I would get my ass kicked by all of the real programmers if they heard me speaking otherwise :) At least for me, if I start to get too cocky, then I fall right on my face and make an ass out of myself.
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I used to be a Cowboy until my butt got kicked by a Gandalf. Though I'd love to call myself a ninja, I'm more of a Vince Neil (I'm not 30 yet), Paratrooper, Evangelist and Theoretician all mixed up. I guess the ratio would be all equal parts. :)
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi Talib
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LOL I am SO Vince Neil (#4) Working with Theoriticians (#6) drives me nuts. Code Cowboys (#7) and Mediocre Men (#9) are cannon fodder for practical jokes and making fun of ;)
Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:
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I am sooooo sick of "he or she," "his or hers," etc. If political correctness is so important in writing, why hasn't the language been updated to give us single, elegant words which will suffice without causing the reader to stumble over gender appeasing debris every other sentence? Or, as Bill the Cat would say, "Ack! Phffft!!!" (All of which is a poke at the current politically correct state of society, not the author who has to live with it or be burned at the stake for insensitivity.) Good stuff otherwise, of course. :-D
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Coming soon: Got a career question? Ask the Attack Chihuahua! www.PracticalUSA.com
