Stereotypes
This is a long post, not because there’s a lot to say about stereotypes (though there is), but because I’m going to try to make you better at thinking, and better at thinking about thinking. In order to do that, I’m going to walk you through several scenarios with thought-puzzle questions in them, and even stop and give you a test in the middle, and you should really not try to guess where I’m going with it all because the thought-puzzles will work better if you’re not trying to connect everything with what you think you know about stereotypes, even if I agree.
Cocoa Geek
Me: It’s funny how there’re all these developers at the conference—I probably read many of their blogs online—but I don’t know what anyone looks like. Like, I think that was Mike Ash, who writes really good posts about the Objective-C runtime…though even if I introduced myself, it’s not like I’d have anything to say to him…
Coworker: Okay, I don’t want to make fun of you but that is really geeky.
In honor of my first WWDC as a full-time employee at Apple, here are a few programmers who I would get a little fanboyish about, which is okay…