Programmers vs Rockers

One of my friend pointed out that I have stopped writing blogs for awhile, so this is me starting again.

This is a comparison between “Rock Stars” and “Programmers” There was a blog post similar to this couple of years back but this is a more detailed comparison.

 

Comparison	Rock Star	Programmer
Looks
Fashion Trend Setters	We start it	What is fashion trend? Never heard of it.
Charisma	Yes	Yes
People asking for Autograph at the street	Yes, all the time	Not likely
# of Twitter followers	Millions	Thousands, but we came up with Twitter.
Friday nights	Night out drinking.	I have work tomorrow.
Instrument	Microphone/Guitar/Drums/other	Microphone + computer + projector
Mobile phones	My phone is not working; I’m buying a new one.	Boot the device in Safe mode and root the OS
Writes	Lyrics	Code
Shows/Talk attendance	Tens of Thousands	Hundreds
Tour the world	Few months ago	Last year I think.
Owns	Multiple cribs and a private jet	Multiple 24” LED displays with SSD hard disk with multi VM
Way to the Top	X Factor / American Idol	Hard work for years (Simon Fuller, if you read this, what about a “Programming Idol” show?)
Drugs	Yes a lot	No
Earnings	Millions of Dollars	Thousands of Dollars
Sex	So much, they regret it later	Private information
Can bring the world to a standstill.	No	Yes, Who do you want us to hack?
Has two eyes, one mouth one nose and two hands	Yes, most of them.	Yes