self-respecting

I would not expect an intelligent and self-respecting person to work under those terms - I know I would not.

"every self-respecting geek has one" I realize Jeff's just being... poetic, but really it's just an excuse to buy toys.

Maybe I should just take an easier route and solve that problem like any self-respecting hacker should: with data & logic. No Steeler game this weekend; I may have found my destiny </sarcasm>

Yuk. I can't understand why any self-respecting restaurant would even offer it.

He did the more self-respecting thing: leave these bureaucratic idiots to their stupid conference to be with his partner.

I hate to bring up Google, but they've done pretty well despite having a history of logos no self-respecting agency would ever produce.

And every self-respecting logo designer now has a couple in a portfolio, so there is plenty of really good sketch logs to choose from.

Related - moving a button 3px to the left shouldn't be a problem for any self-respecting designer, either.

We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavouring to meet it half-way, we easily become indolent and apathetic.

So I have done what any self-respecting programmer would have done: I have taken upon myself to learn new technologies on my own and implement what I can where I can. But there is so much demand for my services in the "old" technologies, it's hard to throw the switch.

I've warned the CEO a lot of self-respecting hackers would rather give up offer than work on such conditions. The contract, while legally covering the company, would have detrimental effect on our ability to hire good hackers in the first place.

They'll do what any self-respecting, old-money hegemony would do: take some senators out for golf and steaks and write a big campaign check. They will lobby to implement more regulations with regards to "money transmitters" in the hopes of increasing their costs enough that they have to raise fees.

> moving a button 3px to the left shouldn't be a problem for any self-respecting developer That's exactly the kind of thinking that developers abhore. Imagine that the whole interface is built on top of a planned framework that follows strict rules and conventions.

Ubuntu can no longer be used by any self-respecting or privacy-conscious company or individual. Imagine the CTO of IBM - "So, this Ubuntu is adware?

The wrong way is to say, "I have an offer at Goldman Sachs for 50% more", to which most self-respecting recruiters will say, "Then go work at Goldman." The right way is to say, "according to my research <don't disclose what your research is, especially if it involves people at the firm> the proper salary for a person of my position is $<X>.

This means that a self-respecting scientist would not publish a sub-par paper even though it's technicality possible to do so, because that would hurt her reputation. So it seems to me that the situation in high-energy physics is close to ideal, with respect to ease of publishing and the social aspect of reputation.

I'm not going to argue that "people" haven't been shafted by changing times and a variety of cultural and economic forces, but I take offense at the comparison to a dancing pet, as I think any self-respecting reader should. Or are we supposed to chuckle with recognition at the absurdity of being trusted with our own finances?

Why should any self-respecting developer want to contribute to a code base that does nothing but facilitate the government ignoring peoples' grievances, while at the same time making them feel like they are participating?

This is extremely small, confined to a handful of monopolized domains, more often than not with products that are not under serious active development, and while an investor might consider them successful, no self-respecting programmer would want to claim that as one of the high points of their careers. For anything else, the success of each project preeeeeetty much depends on the product it aims to develop actually, you know, working as expected, which is obviously up to the programmers.