A REPOST: A Few Good Programmers

I am browsing through friendster blogs when I stumbled upon this specific "I am Nerd" blog. His/her post is quite cool so I thought I repost it here. I am not taking the credit, just reposting... =) (http://daqwolf.blog.friendster.com/2009/12/a-few-good-programmers/)

This is a portion of dialogue I got from A Few Good Men, this is the famous You Can’t Handle the Truth Rant by Jack Nicholson. Stressed as I am, I came up with a stressed users/programmers version of this:

User: Programmer, did you crash this server?!

Manager: You don’t have to answer that question!

Programmer: I’ll answer the question. You want answers?

User: I think I’m entitled.

Programmer: You want answers?

User: I want the truth!

Programmer:

You can’t handle the truth! We live in a world with faulty applications, and those apps have to be fixed by smart people who program. Who’s gonna do it? You, Mr. User? You, Mr. Manager? I have a greater responsibility than you can fathom. You weep for your little project and you curse our team. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that this project’s failure, while tragic, probably saves programmer’s lives. That my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, probably saves programmers’ lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that server! You need me on that server! We use words like Patch, Deploy, Test. We use these words as the backbone of a job spent programming something. You use them as a punchline! I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who surfs and transacts under the blanket of the very application that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it! I would rather you just said “Thank you” and gave me a day off. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a keyboard, and program a module. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to!

User: Did you crash this server?!

Programmer: I did my job…

User: DID YOU CRASH THIS SERVER?!

Programmer :YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT I DID!