Subgenres of Computer Programming

[ipmcc]

Recently, Joel Spolsky posted a transcript of a talk he gave at Yale, where he described two kinds of programmers: in-house programmers, and product programmers, and expounded on the differences between the two and why it's inherently better to be a product programmer.  I wholeheartedly agree with Joel on this issue, but I wanted to take a few

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[je2i]

PS: All of this is why I'm excited to say that I've recently accepted an offer to work for a genuine, big-market commercial product releasing company, and I'm super-psyched about it.

Woot!

[redherring]

(especially on a blog no one reads.)

Except that some of us read it closely enough to notice this:

It has it's ups and downs.

I am appalled.

[ipmcc]

Fixed.