I know one thing. Software Engineers are very jealous. I was working on NATO AWACS upgrade. The COMM software hadn’t been all written yet. One engineer came in one day and saw me writing some Tuning software to tune the radios and set up the software that told the radios what seat they were assigned too. He had a fit anyway I talked to another engineer and he told me to have fun with it.. So anyway I gave the little software package a Tyner Tune name and they used it to get the planes ready through testing..
Wouldn’t their coders have been whacking and hacking continuously since day one 6 months ago? Remember how tons of conservatives doubled their follower count within a couple days of the announcement?
>> I know one thing. Software Engineers are very jealous.
I’ll let you in on a little secret. Many of what you call “software engineers” — those who really get off on “coding” — are basically high functioning autistics. I R one, that’s how I know. “Jealousy” and its close cousin defensiveness are just a few of the manifestations of that tweaked coder personality.
Many eventually learn their way out of the worst of their personality quirks — I’d like to think I did, over the years — although unfortunately some never do.
Great anecdote, by the way. I’m glad you had fun with it. Normal people can code too! :-)