Do programmers get along?

[silentthread]

Maybe I work in a disfunctional environment, but I'm hearing more rumors of so and so hating so and so.

Can't we all just get along?

Today, I almost lost my job, because I almost got into a fist fight with another programmer at my work. I'm a nice guy, unless I'm provoked.

So do programmers in general get along?
How bout at your workplace?

[Zach_VB6]

You're A Programmer? I Hate You!

[timeshifter]

What are you doing here? Get out!!!

[CVMichael]

It's been a year at my current job, some people left, some new ones... yet all this time not even an argument ! We are 6 programmers in a room together with some web designers, data manipulation ppl, and networking ppl.

[penagate]

All programmers think they are right. Invariably, at some point, they are wrong. Such is the nature of technology.,

[oceanebelle]

I have had some sparring session.

so anybody care for fried fish?

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

And then there are those of us who are always right

And i'll kill your mother if i'm wrong.

[mendhak]

I've been in projects, where big arguments break out over simple design issues in the planning phase. But what I notice in professional programmers is that once they're outside that meeting room, they don't care anymore, it's as though the argument never happened. I suppose they know not to take it all personally and instead to concentrate on actually implementing the design and making several geek jokes/puns along the way. The geek jokes are very crucial, IMEO.

[Arrow_Raider]

Programmers each have their own ways of doing things, and so they hate other programmers because they don't share their ways of doing things.

[timeshifter]

Unless the programmers aren't usually working on the same thing... then it's just a joke house.

[wossname]

There's this guy where I work who, if you spark up a potentially interesting (and friendly) conversation about programming, will instantly cite examples of your own code that he doesn't agree with and say are overcomplicated. Countering this with a rational and complete justification of said examples he tends to go on the defensive and say "well it's in the wrong language anyway".

The most amusing part is that he is a javascript person. I would hesitate to label him a programmer.

[timeshifter]

Javascript isn't programming... it's torture. Looks good to teh client, but oh how it hurts to write...

[Shaggy Hiker]

There's this guy where I work who, if you spark up a potentially interesting (and friendly) conversation about programming, will instantly cite examples of your own code that he doesn't agree with and say are overcomplicated. Countering this with a rational and complete justification of said examples he tends to go on the defensive and say "well it's in the wrong language anyway".

The most amusing part is that he is a javascript person. I would hesitate to label him a programmer.

Sounds insecure.

I work in an environment where 95% of the workforce grew up with a passion for exactly what they are working in. As for the other 5%....well, that's who I get to work with. I work for a wildlife agency, which is unlike typical government in that we tend to be somewhat radical fanatics (there are other government agencies that also gather specific types, but places like the highway department....not so much). However, I now work as a programmer, rather than a biologist who does programming, and the other programmers were generally hired for that skill rather than as biologists, which means that they are considerably different in outlook from the average person in the department. There are subjects I just stay away from.

[mendhak]

There are subjects I just stay away from.

Such as biology?

[Shaggy Hiker]

Actually, I meant politics, but once I got thinking about it, I really don't refrain from making fun of our elected officials, so maybe I just made that up.

[Foxer]

There are subjects I just stay away from.

You should discuss with them the biology of your socks.

[Shaggy Hiker]

That is a lengthy subject.

[nemaroller]

Maybe I work in a disfunctional environment, but I'm hearing more rumors of so and so hating so and so.

That's just because you work in Miami.

All day you and your coworkers live in the hot model capitol of the world, yet you are stuck inside writing software in dingy office cubes.

[BodwadUK]

95% of all tension is caused by bad planning. Most of my tensions with the other programmer here are because he is my boss and he has no idea how to plan anything and we never have a clear idea of what people want. Drives me nuts. Away from the work subject we get on ok though