The prevailing stereotype of the hunchbacked, hygiene
challenged programmer enclosed in a dark basement is inaccurate at best. The truth is that many programmers are much
more social and collaborative with other human beings than originally
thought. Imagine this scenario: you’ve
moved into a new neighborhood and you’ve built a brand new house from the
ground up. Several of your neighbors
stop by and decide that your house can be something much bigger and better, so
they add on a basketball court, a tennis court, and a full-length swimming pool
at no cost for labor. These are some
social and friendly neighbors! As it
turns out, thousands of programmers collaborate in software development in
online open-source projects like Firefox, Linux, and Wordpress. If the rest of the professional world was as
social (and generous) as open-source programmers, we’d have free mechanics in
our garages fixing our cars, free heart surgeons in our hospitals performing
life-saving operations, and free plumbers fixing those pesky leaks underneath
the sink! Now, don’t you wish that
everyone was as social as a typical programmer?
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