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Hacker Survey

Posted by michael on from the talk-or-we'll-take-away-your-keyboard dept.

Lisa writes "A new entry in Tim O'Reilly's blog, titled "Creativity, Flow, and Joy in Programming" talks about a survey of IS developers with projects hosted by Sourceforge. The results were presented at O'Reilly's Open Source Convention last week. 60% said, 'With one more hour in the day, I would program.' 70% of the respondents volunteered that lack of sleep was the most significant cost of participation. Almost 50% of the respondents agreed that 'When we prepare a program, it's just like composing poetry or music." OSDN has a page with the survey results in PDF or HTML. Slashdot is a part of OSDN.

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  1. poetry? Music? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Christ, when ever I hear that I want to vomit. You aren't code poets or anything like that. You are fucking programmers. Could you be any more faggy sounding?

  2. wtf? by larry+bagina · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Most of the source forge hosted projects I've seen are still in the "planning" stage, have no files, and 0% activity.

    Open Source.

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    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.