donna

It's like these prima donna electrons want to obey fundamental forces instead of build products!

What are your thoughts on prototype status of NaCL's ed25519 signatures and the updated structure used in libsodium, supercop, ed25519-donna etc....?

Or having to deal with way more unprofessional (or crazy) management, prima-donna teammates, etc.

Maybe no individual involved is a prima-donna, but the ego showed by the company as a whole through the recruitment process is stunning.

I became something of a prima donna, but with with the company expanding the development team, this will not last.

Even the prima donna antipattern of being a loose cannon who is flakily grouchy can be somewhat consistent with success --- people will put up with irritating inefficient prima donna stuff if there are enough compensating advantages.

I'm not a prima donna, but I've found this ultimately saves everyone's time and energy.

They eventually get pissed off enough at his prima donna status that they start ostracizing him in subtle or not-so-subtle ways, and the workplace gradually becomes toxic for everyone (including the boss).

They'll be their typical aggressive recruiter selves, sell me, bid me up and insist that I can't possibly work for less than X without making me seem like the prima donna..

Too often hackers don't get the job because of being overqualified and prima-donna, rather than lack of technical skill - a game teaching/testing the art of office politics could be applicable to wider market [outside of infosec].

As far as the prima donna attitude, first realize that in a typical software company everyone is insanely busy all the time and you need to negotiate some kind of mutually acceptable situation for how you can learn.

If you have 4 hours to kill, this House hearing video clears many things (about how incompetent, but also how dismissive both Archuleta and Donna Seymour, the CIO, were - Seymour still not fired yet).

As in the opera Rigoletto, La donna è mobile, that is, "The woman is fickle".

That line in Patton (probably my favorite movie) where he says "Hell, I know I'm a prima donna.

Why not just be disruptive and go with "prima donna"?

It's one of the items on my "prima donna" list.

Also: Be Inc., Palm/Handspring (Donna Dubinsky), General Magic, Eazel.

While the last part of Donna's answer is questionable in reasoning, there is no doubt that handing all your data to Google on a cloud is potentially dangerous as we have all seen in the recent outages for Gmail and Google App Engine.