All Programmers May Be Self Taught But The Best Are Also "Martial Artists"

I have not read Geoff Thompson book but from what was present in the article...<p>He is obviously not referring to professional mixed martial artists (UFC, Strikeforce, Pride, etc) when using the term "school-trained martial artist." I assume he means someone who visits a gym on a casual basis, but holds down a regular full time job. To try to even qualify such an argument without getting into any kind of specifics (weights of parties involved, one-on-one fight, legal ramifications) is ridiculous. If he is referring to professional mma artists he is off his rocker. These guys would annihilate "street fighters" and do so on a regular basis. These is a NSFW story about a mediocre pro fighter named "War Machine" (yes I know) and a street fight where he laid out something like 9 guys.<p>I would give the the book the time of day but I will never give money to anyone who is a self proclaimed "victor in over 200 street fights" because I myself have won over 400.

Actual title: "Hackers and Fighters".

I realize this article is from 2007, but here in 2011 how about programmers just being programmers?<p>I'm so sick of how programmers are supposedly "rock stars", "ninjas", "martial artists" or whatever the fuck else.<p>You don't see astrophysicists comparing themselves (in large numbers) to ninjas. Because they are Goddamn Astrophysicists, and that's cool enough already.<p>As a profession let's grow the fuck up and just own being programmers.