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I don't agree that "the smartass" is the worst of 5. I'd propose a 6th one: legacy technology proponent. How many times there was a moment of decision what stac

I don't agree that "the smartass" is the worst of 5. I'd propose a 6th one: legacy technology proponent. How many times there was a moment of decision what stack to use for a new project and there was always this one guy going "How about we use LAMP with XYZ PHP framework? There are a lot of 'coders' around we can hire for that and they will be cheaper than ruby/python/scala/etc guys".

misterjangles 13y ago
Or #7 the programmer who is too cool to use modern, stable, popular tools that would be perfectly adequate for solving the problem. Instead insists that the team write everything in unproven fad technology XYZ - then disappears when he/she gets bored in 3 months, leaving others to maintain a code base written on a abandoned platform.
- apaprocki 13y ago
  Having read the article, I'm pretty sure that person is #2 :)
adamors 13y ago
30 minutes in and there's already an ignorant comment about PHP. HN never fails to disappoint.