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From the article: > Downey appreciated that Musk was not a foul-smelling, fidgety, coder whack job. Always good to know how the rest of us "coders" are looked
by parennoob 11y ago
From the article:
> Downey appreciated that Musk was not a foul-smelling, fidgety, coder whack job.
Always good to know how the rest of us "coders" are looked upon by Bloomberg, and presumably the average person while they are busy singing Elon Musk's praises.
- dfgray 11y ago> by Bloomberg I got the impression that was Downey's expectation, not Bloomberg's. People don't smell or fidget in Hollywood..
- ende 11y agoNot after being doused in makeup and qualudes, at least.
- smacktoward 11y agoOr rather, when they do, they at least have the decency to call it "art."
- parennoob 11y agoThe article was written by Bloomberg. It doesn't mention a direct quote by Downey, so I'm going to assume they are the Bloomberg writer's own words.
- cdelsolar 11y agoCome on, let the first coder here who isn't a foul-smelling, fidgety whack job cast the first stone.
- parennoob 11y agoI think it is an overblown and mostly false stereotype that coders are foul-smelling. I've never actually met a foul-smelling coder. Ill-dressed, yes. But we mostly work in offices with air-conditioning, there isn't much sweating going on. All of my current and former coworkers seemed to wear antiperspirant and deodorant, and so do I. As for "whack job", this is the kind of language that disparages our industry and unnecessarily lowers our social status. Would a doctor or lawyer take being called a "whack job" by default so lightly?