Are Software Developers Naturally Weird?

jammag writes "Well, c'mon, yes mdash; let's admit it. As a veteran coder discusses as he looks at his career, software development is brimming with the offbeat, the quirky and the downright odd. As he remembers, there was the 'Software Lyrics' guy and the 'Inappropriate Phone Call' programmer, among others. Are unique types drawn to the profession, or are we 'transformed over time by our darkened working environments and exposure to computer screen radiation?'"pa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/10/18/1557210/Are-Software-Developers-Naturally-Weird?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/10/18/1557210"/a/ppa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/10/18/1557210/Are-Software-Developers-Naturally-Weird?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JYValddn1E87IDa7tkiLwZr8XrY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JYValddn1E87IDa7tkiLwZr8XrY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JYValddn1E87IDa7tkiLwZr8XrY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JYValddn1E87IDa7tkiLwZr8XrY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/_aWmIROBglo" height="1" width="1"/

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