Re: The <whatever> developer syndrome
"Aaron J. Seigo" <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 02 October 2003 04:54, Jason Wood wrote: > 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. hobbyist has about as bad a turn to it as does "amateur", which originally meant "lover" but now means "non-professional". seeing as most KDE developers are either professional programmers or students training in related fields, perhaps "avocational enthusiast developer". but not hobbyist. as for people[1] who feel compelled to needlessly criticize others regularly, openly and without providing constructive, realistic solutions/thoughts, they are one of the sorts of people i prefer to simply avoid in life: the sort who will tear down any structure no matter how beautiful simply to satisfy their own insecurity. on the flip side, i've found that when i do something positive in the direction i wish things would go, it results in far more good than any amount of bitching i could do would result in. and when i do feel like bitching overly much, it's usually time to go get some fresh air. [1] i'm not speaking of you here, Jason =) - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/fLAm1rcusafx20MRArKbAKCR8F4t9UAy7KrfBlm7sqLNIl8qhACeI1Su TPresDhQKn0gAYjo3SSEZLA= =o2XI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent OfB.biz: Open for Business, KDE or the author's employer.