Only the shitty ones are, because they think they have the silver bullet for all problems. It doesn't matter if they're a n00b or a greybeard, if they're too focused on just one language, style or whatever, they're shit.
>>1 Because the software world doesn't work on consensus, feelings or democracy: only hard truth prevails. You need debate and arguments, instead of blindly accepting everything from authority, otherwise you become just another code monkey "implementator".
Only true for computer science. In software engineering people work with consensus and democracy all the time.
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Anonymous2016-09-08 6:13
>>23 What about benevolent dictators, project leaders, maintainers and managers? Where is your democracy where corporate masters order your every activity? What democracy is open source controlled by a single maintainer or a small committee of self-important freaks?