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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. you're comparing apples and oranges. by Requiem · · Score: 1, Troll

    I mean, yes, both of them happen to be fruit, but they're otherwise very different.

    I'll agree that basic vi sucks, and I'm an avid vim user. But addressing your points one by one:

    1. vim does
    2. vim does
    3. vim does
    4. vim does, I believe. But then, I never use it, because I prefer a text editor to be a text editor and little else.
    5. vim easily allows you to switch between buffers.
    6. not sure if vim does this, but I'm sure you can write macros to do this.

    In short, you, sir, are a troll. Not all of us like our text editors to try (badly) to be a newsreader, an e-mail client, and a web browser.

    Best,
    a fellow troll