Je suis un nerd

Ce matin en entrant dans le métro, la première personne que je croise est une jolie brunette d'à peu près 20 ans qui arbore un t-shirt brun avec l'inscription: "I love nerds". Je pense qu'elle m'a souri un peu. Je suis un nerd.

Un petit billet pour les développeurs. Tiré de The Industrialization of Software, une liste de vérités sur le développement d'applications. La liste est de Paul Kimmel.

Software Development Truism’s:

1. It is still the Wild, Wild West out here and anything goes.
2. When someone says the schedule is going to be missed, they are never lying.
3. Change is a constant, but people will seldom thank you for changing their code.
4. A lot of bad software is being written by people who don't read.
5. People believe too much of what they read.
6. Authors are not smarter than the rest of us; they just read more.
7. Managers should not make technical decisions, but do.
8. If a manager says I am not technical, be prepared to spend a lot of time explaining things to them so they can make decisions they shouldn't be making.
9. Managers hire experts and ignore them all the time.
10. Messengers get shot more often than not.
11. Leaders have to lead; sometimes you will look behind you and find that someone is actually following.
12. You are the best programmer.
13. Programmers hate to read another programmer's code; if they volunteer to review your code, it is not to do you a favor.
14. There really are programmers ten times faster than everyone else.
15. Every man is in some way my superior, as long as he doesn't keep reminding me.
16. Programmers are emotionally attached to their code, but never say this out loud.
17. Many programmers are intellectual bullies and egomaniacs.
18. Everyone talks about constructive tension but doesn't want you disagreeing with them.
19. Benevolent dictators build the best software.
20. Decisions are, more often than not, emotional.
21. The mean time between the time you start speaking and someone flipping the bozo bit on you is ten seconds.

[...]Flipping the bozo bit means to make a mental note that a particular person is a bozo and everything they say in the future should be ignored or looked upon as the meanderings of a slightly annoying, occasionally amusing child or a drunken uncle.