Re: The <whatever> developer syndrome

Jason Wood <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.cafe
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 10:28 pm, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> M-W suggests these possible choices for <whatever>:

> PROUD, ARROGANT, HAUGHTY, LORDLY, INSOLENT, OVERBEARING, SUPERCILIOUS,
> DISDAINFUL which all mean showing scorn for inferiors.  This is certainly
> the case for programmers that think that they are more important than the
> users.

<snip>

try HOBBYIST

Well, can't find definition of hobbyist, but a hobby is :

An activity or interest pursued outside one's regular occupation and engaged 
in primarily for pleasure.

This is still most certainly the case for most programmers who work on KDE.

Cheers,
Jason

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