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Coding Horror: The Magpie Developer
- edw519 19y agoI think he's confusing "programmer" with "developer". "Elite developers ... blah blah blah..." May I suggest... "Elite developers are elite because they're far more concerned with delivering results than caring how it's delivered."
- gills 19y agoAgreed. Maybe he's also confusing "elite" with "elitist"?
- edw519 19y agolol gills, thanks for providing more data that a hacker can be a cunning linguist.
- michaelneale 19y agoFairly sure he meant elitist.
- pchristensen 19y agoI don't know, I've read Atwood for years and he pretty much thinks there are the 80% of developers that don't really care about computers, the 19% that do care, program for fun, and read computer books/blogs (he puts himself here), and 1% that are the elite wizards that create new languages, run the best OSS projects, drive new standards, etc. I don't think he's critical of these elite developers, just observing their nature.
- michaelneale 19y agoPossibly - it just read more like the elitist types rather then the actual 1% elite (who are so rare you almost never know them).