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Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? 💻🔪 (vole.wtf)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It's an or not an xor

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't know, Reiser is not a serial...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago

He also didn't invent a programming language.
For a file system you only get one murder.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think there's a personality anti-correlation that keeps this mostly exclusive.

Serial killers tend to be more outgoing and active (to a troubling degree), whereas coders who create their own languages tend to be indoors types who don't mind sitting in one place for long periods.

I mean there are plenty of psychologies that could make for someone who does both, but it would seem to reduce the odds a lot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah, I guess a competent programmer would rather go for paralllel killing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I scored 8 out of 10! Can you tell a coder from a cannibal? 💻🔪 https://vole.wtf/coder-serial-killer-quiz/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

8 / 10.

But it wasn't fair. I actually met Guido at a PyCon conference.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I scored 4 out of 10! Can you tell a coder from a cannibal? 💻🔪 https://vole.wtf/coder-serial-killer-quiz/

I almost got 2 out of 10 if it wasn't for the COBOL and PYTHON devs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

5 out of 10 😭

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I scored 8 out of 10! Can you tell a coder from a cannibal? 💻🔪

https://vole.wtf/coder-serial-killer-quiz/

Fun game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I scored 8/10, but I should get a pass for guessing the inventor of python is a serial killer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I scored 8 out of 10! Can you tell a coder from a cannibal? 💻🔪 https://vole.wtf/coder-serial-killer-quiz/

[–] daniskarma 2 points 6 days ago

I scored 7 out of 10! Can you tell a coder from a cannibal? 💻🔪 https://vole.wtf/coder-serial-killer-quiz/

Not bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I scored 9 out of 10! Can you tell a coder from a cannibal? 💻🔪 https://vole.wtf/coder-serial-killer-quiz/

The more unkempt and dishevelled they look, the more likely they are to be a language inventor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I scored 8 out of 10! Can you tell a coder from a cannibal? 💻🔪 https://vole.wtf/coder-serial-killer-quiz/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I scored 9 out of 10! Can you tell a coder from a cannibal? 💻🔪 https://vole.wtf/coder-serial-killer-quiz/