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From: Lew on 19 Jul 2010 00:22
Simon Brooke wrote:
>> All geeks are not created equal. Thomas Brooks (no relation), in the one
>> of the essays in his book 'The Mythical Man Month',...

EricF wrote:
> You mean Frederick Brooks. He wrote the book. You're confusing him with your
> cousin Tom.

Beyond that, no one was going to guess a familial relationship between
"Brooke" and "Brooks".

--
Lew
From: Arne Vajhøj on 19 Jul 2010 19:59
On 17-07-2010 14:45, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Are developers merely being regarded as �code monkeys� in the
> general population? Well, I just read this:
>
> �Those who came up with more good ideas on Torrance's
> tasks grew up to be entrepreneurs, inventors, college
> presidents, authors, doctors, diplomats, and software
> developers.�
>
> http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html
>
> It seems to put developers in quite a prestigious company,
> while there seems not be a reason for any pro-developer
> bias, because it was not written with the intention to
> evaluate the prestige of software development, but a whole
> other question in mind.

I would say that the general view of developers are:

family : free PC support
non skilled people : deeply impressed
non skilled people : mutual respect
management : someone that cost X $/hour (and lower is better)

:-)

Arne



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