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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. what they don't mention... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...is that I really didn't read the article, I just wanted to see if I could get the earliest reply!

  2. FFP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first fucking post

    for CLIT

  3. Re:GET A LIFE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Folks get your priorities straight, have a bath, get a girlfriend, get laid. And spend any extra hours repeating the last step

    Plunge into pussy over and over like any piece of trailer trash can do, or create something intellectually challenging which can further your career and give you something to be proud of. Hmm.

    Admittedly the pussy is a fun distraction now and then, but come on here... there's much more to life than that.

  4. Re:GET A LIFE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Not if it saves a young life from the hellish torture and damnation known as programming.

  5. Re:GET A LIFE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    get a girlfriend, get laid

    My religous believes prohibit sex before marraige. And I have had serious girlfriends. Like one I dated for 18 months. No sex.

    "Getting laid" is not the end all, be all you make it out to be.

  6. Re:GET A LIFE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Since you are a VIRGIN, you can't really say how awesome sex really is, can you?

  7. Re:GET A LIFE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    True, but he can probably guess by knowing his own reaction to having a girlfriend to hold and give/receieve affection from, and talking to other guys about their experiences which are either more or less sexual, which I'm sure are similar.

    If you've ever known a hardcore Christian, you know the way they cuddle is something fierce. And they talk dirty better than most atheists.

  8. Re:poetry? Music? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    D()()D, you're gettin a Dell!