I was reading "Fact and folklore in software engineering"
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at http://morendil.github.com/folklore.html (A codeproject email link.) It bugged me that their example "fact" is generally false because all the conditions needed for water to boil at 100 degrees celsius are rarely met. What is a fact is that the celsius scale is set to 0 and 100 when water freezes and boils, when a laundry list of conditions are met. Then I read the term “net negative productivity programmers” and I thought, "Wait, I've MET some of those jerks!" So, do you have or had a NNPP in your life? PS The article is interesting. I personally don't think it helps me spot fact from opinion. PPS I remember when lines of code were proposed as a productivity measure and I blew up. I had just taken code that wasn't working correctly, removed 400 lines of uncommented code, replaced it with 20 lines of comments and 80 lines of code. It now ran correctly and slightly faster than before. Since comments that tell the story of what you are doing don't count as code lines, my two days of work was a negative productivity of 320 lines of code. (I guess that makes me a NNPP.)