Posted by
CowboyNeal
on from the diary-of-a-madman dept.
bsadler writes "There is a pretty interesting article on the psychology of a programmer over at devx. It includes some suggestions that a manager might take into account when dealing with programmers. Maybe my boss will finally give me my own office."
Re:It's not really psychology
by
arvindn
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· Score: 3, Funny
Dead right. Often when I'm coding (mostly at home, being still a student) someone interrupts me with a question. I look at their face and stare blankly for a full 10 seconds. That's how long it takes me to get off my train of thought. And they often think I'm doing it on purpose, to irritate them:(
Why do people insist on using 'her' instead of 'his' for the generic pronoun?
Because they're writing about me.
I guess a male author planning this kind of article would prefer to imagine the situation involving female (in this case programmers) rather than males, unless they're gay or something.
Why do you think the shower was so important to the computer researcher mentioned in the article?
Re:It's not really psychology
by
Bald+Wookie
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· Score: 5, Funny
So then I have to focus on whatever interrupted me, while trying desperately to cling on to those ideas that didn't make it down to the keyboard before I was interrupted.
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Dead right. Often when I'm coding (mostly at home, being still a student) someone interrupts me with a question. I look at their face and stare blankly for a full 10 seconds. That's how long it takes me to get off my train of thought. And they often think I'm doing it on purpose, to irritate them :(
Why do people insist on using 'her' instead of 'his' for the generic pronoun?
Because they're writing about me.
I guess a male author planning this kind of article would prefer to imagine the situation involving female (in this case programmers) rather than males, unless they're gay or something.
Why do you think the shower was so important to the computer researcher mentioned in the article?
So then I have to focus on whatever interrupted me, while trying desperately to cling on to those ideas that didn't make it down to the keyboard before I was interrupted.
Sounds like you need to disable write caching.