16/04/2010, 10:29 PM
ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote: [ -> ]As you said, developers in these sorts of communities will often be plagued with the 'idiot' type. You can't really compare this to bus drivers, for example, as I'd say that the majority of people the bus driver interacts with are probably nice. Whereas you probably get exposed to a large majority of "not-nice" people if you decide to give support in these sorts of communities as a developer.
Even if they know that those interacting with them are the "bad majority", it's quite difficult to really ignore the fact that you are constantly dealing with these, and after a while, I guess at some point, you'll snap and decide to just simply leave.
And getting your code 'borrowed' can really hurt some people. Some of these things are intellectually challenging and take hundreds of hours to make - someone taking that away can really get one worked up.
On the other hand, I've seen idiots get all protective over a 2 line script. Go figure :P
Just to quote you on that, since i take transit 5 days a week, I'd have to say that here; transit drivers are never really treated with respect at times. Sure, some can be jackasses, but usually a bus driver at some point in the day will have to deal with some random person fingering them, yelling at them, arguing to get on for free, etc. This isn't a rare occurrence, in fact; it's more of a uniform part of the day that i notice and that's where i got my comparison.
Aye, it may not be the best; but it's still the best comparison i can make with personal experience of "living with it when it sucks."
Gamerlink Wrote: [ -> ]2 lines of code can take down my schools computer network :D !
I never thought other hackers liked attention , but i guess some want to be accepted by many , so some might quit over those who criticize them or their work D:
And this is exactly what drives me nuts, can't you believe that one of the reasons I'm taking a bachelors of science in computer engineering is because all the hackers/devs do this? (meaning, i feel like wee need people like myself (brag brag) who don't have an emotional ego to start hacking and coding some nice brew)