Can you tell a programmer/language inventor from a killer?

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Assuming Hans Reiser isn't on the list.

He could well be. I got a programmer/serial killer trick question.

Isn't it the same 10 people every time?

Dunno, only tried it once.

I think it is. Task: build a nice app with a lot of pics :)

Yeah the guy with the self written score board for his kills.. o.O After this i also thougt Reiser could be one of the next.

But i think one can tell the difference:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Hans_Reis...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Reiser_mu...

Given that I've done this quiz before, it's surprisingly hard. I'm not sure though if this is supposed to tell me something about serial killers, or about programmers.

Simple... the fairly normal looking ones are the killers, and the creepy looking ones are the programmers.

seen this before. it's funny. I always guess serial killer.

I got 9/10. But the guy I guessed wrong was a programmer and a serial killer. (Although not a language inventor.)

I got 9/10 but one of the serial killers looked like someone else who was a programmer.

Is it just me, but do the programmers seem happier and the serial killers seem more like they're trying to look happy or trying to hide unhappiness?

I guess Lombroso was wrong then...

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