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Posted by david at Tue, 2006/07/18 - 19:06 on geek | list | programming

Hacknot has a wonderful list of programmer types. Have a read and then see if you can recognise any in your workplace.

I've seen Arrogant Arthur, Essential Eric, Incompetent Ian, Quiet Quincy (although I'm not convinced this is a bad one) and X-Files Xavier.

The list also serves as a warning. See if you can spot any of the tendencies in yourself and work to avoid them. I think in the past I've been guilty of being Generic George. Although in my defense, a lot of the object-oriented literature teaches you to be just this.

And I'm sure most geeks find it easy to be Feature Creep Frank on any of their pet projects. You know the ones: where you want everything to be just perfect. Guilty, Your Honour.

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