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Poll: Are you a Steve or a Chris?
A follow up to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2305811
- zwieback 16y agoAh, this is interesting. I'd love to see how this classification correlates with age and the recent poll about which OS you use. I'm 45, a "Both" and use Win7 and Linux.
- mmphosis 16y ago45, Both, MacOSX and Linux.
- CodeMage 16y ago32, "Both", Win XP and Linux
- TillE 16y ago28 / neither / everything (though only Windows professionally at the moment) Outside of the occasional burst, my programming style is typically cautious and incremental, but not perfectionist.
- jarin 16y ago31, Steve, OS X
- reedcat 16y ago38, "Crhis", Vista and Linux
- donw 16y ago30, Steve, OS X on the desktop, Linux on the servers.
- moxiemk1 16y ago20, Chris, OSX
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- grncdr 16y ago27 / Both / Everything
- eof 16y ago28. a very strong Steve; only linux
- kgc 16y ago24 / neither / osx, linux
- McP 16y ago31, Steve, Win7
- Udo 16y ago35, Steve, OS X desktop / Linux server
- donspaulding 16y ago27, Both, OSX/Ubuntu Server
- alextgordon 16y agoThere's almost certainly a spectrum here. I'd say I'm somewhere in between Steve and Both. Someone should make a politicalcompass.org type test that plots your Steveiness and Chrisiness.
- kgc 16y agoNeither. I tend to stare down a problem until I can solve it. I want to have the whole solution, or at least the critical parts of it, in my head before typing it out. One of my bosses described my technique as "do nothing all day and get stuff done." There were three similar projects assigned to our division, each assigned to a sub group of three people (typically a programmer, a psychologist/researcher, and a designer). My sub group was the only one to successfully create and deploy their application before the three month deadline. (I also moved them over to Pivotal Tracker since putting stuff into their regular system was abandoned long ago and the white board was becoming an organizational nightmare.)