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Are Software Developers Naturally Weird?
jammag writes "Well, c'mon, yes — let's admit it. As a veteran coder discusses as he looks at his career, software development is brimming with the offbeat, the quirky and the downright odd. As he remembers, there was the 'Software Lyrics' guy and the 'Inappropriate Phone Call' programmer, among others. Are unique types drawn to the profession, or are we 'transformed over time by our darkened working environments and exposure to computer screen radiation?'"
> Plus Scientologists are supposed to disconnect from friends and family outside the group. And they suck money out of their members pretty
> effectively.
Plus they get you to tell them all sorts of stuff about your past, so they would be able to blackmail you should you ever decide to leave.
(Interpret that how you will)
Anything can be found funny, from a certain point of view.
Yeah, I've gotten to the level know when someone asks me the 'wrong' question I now answer "You're not asking me the right question". I used to answer it.
Is "is that sentence grammatically correct?" the correct question to ask?
I'm guessing I'm going to get modded down for this one but could people stop with this stupid "Just throw more language at em" nonsense. Yes, I'm apparently one of those very rare group who has massive problems with learning any foreign language. I can't tell you how much of a torture it is to get this shoved down your throat and then when you try to get help being basically told to just suck it up. Sure, try to suggest it so some of the students will try it, maybe it'll benefit them. However don't assume it will always benefit all students. (Because to be blunt for some of us this is just not true.)
Did you know 80 to 90% of the moderators on slashdot wouldn't recognize a troll even if one dragged them under a bridge.