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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. 50%? by AppyPappy · · Score: 3, Funny
    Almost 50% of the respondents agreed that "When we prepare a program, it's just like composing poetry or music."

    As best I can tell 50% never bother to finish the project. It's like a bad sci-fi novel "and......a monster eats everyone..the end"

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    If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem

  2. Two things by FortKnox · · Score: 3, Funny
    1.) This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.

    and 2.) What were the other options????

    • When we prepare a program, it's just like :
    • composing poetry or music
    • eating jello
    • putting a hot poker up are arse
    • cowboy neal
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    Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
  3. Ah... I thougt it was just me by Viking+of+the+north · · Score: 3, Funny


    "When we prepare a program, it's just like composing poetry or music."

    I thougt it was just me. I love to use my cppToMp3 converter and listen to my codefiles.

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    All work and no play makes me a dull boy
  4. GET A LIFE! by MosesJones · · Score: 5, Funny

    For pities sake this is just plain sad. If there was one more hour in the day 60% of people would sit in front of a monitor ?

    This would mean 365 hours extra coding, no "I'd meet up with friends", "go to club", "get a girlfriend", "have a bath".

    Given an extra hour in the day I'd spend an extra hour with my wife and daughter.

    For pities sake people, Mozart shagged his way around Austria and Germany while composing. Artists are famed for going out and getting laid.

    Folks get your priorities straight, have a bath, get a girlfriend, get laid. And spend any extra hours repeating the last step.

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    1. Re:GET A LIFE! by dubious9 · · Score: 5, Funny

      # cd /
      # mkdir life; cd life
      # ./getLaid
      bash: command not found
      # ./takeBath -time=now -soap=true
      # ./getGirlFriend
      bash: command not found
      # cd /pub
      # ./beer
      bash: Ahh
      # ./findWomen proximity=10m
      Age Looks(1-10) Description
      46 5 SugarMomma
      23 7 Nice, but baggage central
      35 2 Looks like uncle buck
      28 3 Smells like hotdogs
      # ./beer
      # ./beer
      # ./flirt
      search returned no hits
      # ./beer
      # ./beer
      # ./beer
      # ./findWomen -proximty=10m
      Age Looks(1-10) Description
      46 8 Wow!
      23 10 Hot!
      35 8 Damn!
      28 10 WooHa!
      # ./buyBeer forWoman=4
      # ./getNumber fromWoman=4
      bash: core dump
      # ./getGirlFriend fromWoman=3
      bash: are you sure? (y/n) y
      warning: process beer is making system unstable proceed? (y/n) y
      bash: Success!
      # cd /life
      # ./getLaid
      bash: Success!
      # ./sleep -until=morning

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    2. Re:GET A LIFE! by McCart42 · · Score: 1, Funny
      # ./wake
      # ./look
      Age Looks(1-10) Description
      35 2 Once again looks like uncle buck
      # ./chew -file=arm
      warning: process chew is deleting arm: proceed? (y/n) YYYY
      bash: arm has been deleted!
      # ./run
      bash: Success!
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  5. my cost by jaymzter · · Score: 5, Funny

    is lack of sex, especially when my wife wants to know why I'm "playing on the computer"!

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  6. Re:HA! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The fact that my wrist is larger than your biceps should alert you to the fact that

    E) You wank all day long.

    Snik snik. Now go mop the floor by the fryer.

  7. Re:poetry? Music? by stromthurman · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think "code choreographer" meets the goal of sounding "more faggy"

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