Ok it’s lame but I don’t care
Real programmers often end up explaining stuff to the person who started off explaining it to them
Real programmers have written programs for imaginary hardware
Real programmers think that maybe one day the web will take off
Real programmers regard databases as ‘cheating’
Real programmers make their girlfriends compose shopping lists in RDF
Real programmers think the next big thing will be usenet
Real programmers have sold scripts for in excess of $1000 a line
Real programmers remember ‘No Hireing’ DHH because his indenting was not up to scratch
Real programmers have written programs for an operating system that less than 100 people use
Real programmers think SICP has too much fluff
Real programmers have both recieved and given death threats in comments
Real programmers sold at least one university assignment to a bulgarian they met on irc
Real programmers steal Steve Jobs’ cars’ license plate
Real programmers have proposed marriage based on code quality alone
Real programmers have joined billion row tables unnecessarily to irritate a DBA
Real programmers can often detect a sites PageRank by smell alone
Real programmers have considered ways of programming via musical instrument
Real programmers have requested the job title of “The Big Kahuna”
Real programmers were granted the title
Real programmers have telneted into an mmo
Real programmers used to whistle 1200 baud modem handshakes back in the day
Real programmers still talk about it
Real programmers still remember the bbs that Mel used to hang on
Real programmers have broken hardware with software
Real programmers have asked a programming question on a date
Real programmers profiled and optimized their first hello world program
Real programmers tried to get funding for Knuth.tv