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I prefer "silly" to "mind-numbingly foolish", but I don't think he does himself any favors by using the term.

Yea, silly works.

If we really want to give programmers silly names fine I am a "Professional". Aka the movie "the Professional" where you have a problem, you pay me money, I solve the problem. Rock Stars are just another silly name people give out so they don't have to pay you what your time is worth. Look up actual rock stars they tend to end up broke because while it might look like the are making a lot of money most of the time they are getting peanuts.

if I correctly remember that movie it didn't end too well for the professional ;)

I respectfully disagree. He died protecting someone he loved, taking out an evil guy in the process. Thats as good a death as I could ask for.

Dude! Why do you have to post spoilers like that? Yeah it's far from a new release but still!

I haven't seen it yet and it's on my Hulu queue. Thanks!

Argh!

It's fifteen years old now. That's probably older than some of the people who post to this board. I'd have more sympathy for the 'spoiler' effect if the end wasn't also as obvious as a nail in the foot, even though its obviousness doesn't detract from the strength of the story.

Who moderated you up here? You give away the ending of a movie and then figuratevely give me the finger with a too-bad-for-you response and you get applauded for it.

Sheesh. Would it kill you and jacquesm to put a courtesy "spoiler alert" notice at the start of your messages?

(This is all incredibly off topic so this'll be my last post on it.)

apologies, I thought it was so old a spoiler alert would not be required. Carelessness on my part for sure, it's just that to me it is like discussing the ending of 'star wars' or 'the french connection'.

Great movie though, The Professional, go see it anyway, in spite of the spoiler and enjoy the music too.

Oy... if we're talking image... do you really want to be a "professional programmer"?

I think there is _something_ to the rockstar image... namely passion. Accept no bullshit, swear at the suits, light shit on fire to get results passion.

But I agree, "rockstar" A) doesn't cut it as a metaphor and B) is not a word a real developer would use to recruit a real developer

If you want to give my kind of programmer a nickname, save it for your business docs. My fathers already gave me one:

Hacker.

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