October 5, 2006

The Fourteen Types of Programmers

Inspired by this article, and this list of animals, I present to you - The Fourteen Types of Programmers

  1. Tired Ones
  2. Ones that like shiny things
  3. Those that blog
  4. Lazy ones
  5. Venerable Ancients
  6. The ones who comment on articles like this one
  7. Random ones
  8. Those that are wrathful
  9. The ones that seek to learn
  10. Cartoonish facades
  11. Those that believe Singleton is the only useful pattern
  12. Those that belong to an Ideology
  13. others
  14. Those that from a long way off look like flies

However, unlike Borges, I’m going to give some definitions.

26 Comments »

  1. hey this post sucks.

    Comment by shawn — October 6, 2006 @ 1:11 am

  2. Hmmph.

    Comment by jb — October 6, 2006 @ 1:39 am

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  4. This is unbelievably lame.

    Comment by h — October 6, 2006 @ 12:34 pm

  5. SHITTIEST LAMEST POST EVER, AND THEN SPAMMED ON DIGG — YOU SUCK MONKEY BALLS!

    Comment by ab — October 6, 2006 @ 12:34 pm

  6. The post only sucks if you know nothing about borges, epistemology or taxonomies. If you followed the nicely provided links, you might actually learn something new and understand the joke as well as the profundity underlying Borges’ original list.

    Comment by ryan — October 6, 2006 @ 3:24 pm

  7. Thanks Ryan!

    Comment by jb — October 6, 2006 @ 4:17 pm

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  10. Oh dear, I recognize myself in all fourteen of these descriptions, and it isn’t pretty.

    Thanks for the wake-up!

    Comment by Reg Braithwaite — October 16, 2006 @ 2:18 am

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  13. An earlier comment said “YOU SUCK MONKEY BALLS!”

    If the author of what I’ve read so far sucks monkey balls, then I’m going to have to start sucking monkey balls too so I can write this good.

    Can’t wait to see the whole list so I can link to it all at once and then follow the meme. “The 13 kinds of Linux users”? Something.

    Comment by Penguin Pete — October 29, 2006 @ 4:55 am

  14. Heh. Thanks Pete. I appreciate the kind words.

    Comment by jb — October 29, 2006 @ 10:33 am

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  16. “Those that belive Singleton …”
    believe is misspelled.

    Comment by Al Gorup — November 1, 2006 @ 3:25 pm

  17. Ooops.

    Thanks Al.

    Comment by jb — November 1, 2006 @ 4:13 pm

  18. very very nice. that’s 2.times(very) nice. very.times(2) nice. excellent, too.

    (and don’t let the haters get you down).

    Comment by lb — November 2, 2006 @ 11:30 pm

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  20. The list is really bland, and not funny.

    Comment by Saemus — January 29, 2007 @ 11:38 am

  21. From far enough away, all programmers look like flies.

    Comment by yoda — November 26, 2007 @ 9:05 pm

  22. There’s a lot of truth in these

    Comment by TimothyP — November 27, 2007 @ 3:02 pm

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