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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. Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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

    Only with the GPL instead of the RIAA! Open Source is truly spectacular. Quotes like this bring tears to my eyes.

    1. Re:Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Could you be any GAYER? They aren't poets, they are line workers. They just crank out code. Thay make tools. It is like saying the asembly worker that made my Craftsman screwdriver is a poet.

  2. HA! by TheBahxMan · · Score: -1, Troll

    Programmers aren't artists, they're normally just a drain on their parent's income.

    No, working at hastings isn't and telling everyone some day you're going to make it big writing rootkits does not make women want to sleep with you.

    A few more stories like this, and CNN is going to start doing stories of the rising rate of infected bedsores among young celebate men over 250 lbs. yes, I realize many of you worthless dorks are fucking twigs, but you make fun of yourselves. The fact that my wrist is larger than your biceps should alert you to the fact that A.) You should try doing something other than typing all day long B.) take a shower C.) stop watching 'Hackers' and 'Hackers 2' because both of those movies sucked and make me want to light fires in the national forest D.) One day, your parents WILL ask you why you buy so many condoms if you don't have a girlfriend.

    So in closing, please off yourselves, so I don't have to.

    jamie@idrinksemenandtonic.vg is a fag

  3. 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

  4. Re:GET A LIFE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    These days, I spend more time with my goat.

    Believe me, I've been reading slashdot.org for years, enjoyed most of it and yet never achieved the same happiness I get from this goat.