You know you're a web developer when...
- you can tell the difference between Arial and Helvetica
- your right-click in Firefox brings up a menu longer than (and wider) than your dual monitor setup
- 1px of margin can make or break your day
- you see colour in hex (it's not light grey, it's #BBBBBB!)
- corollary: you can tell the difference between this and this
- you check Alexa (or alexaholic) more than your bank balance
- Red Bull and Full Throttle are two of your basic food groups
- it drives you crazy that Myspace, craigslist, and plenty of fish are so successful in spite of their ugliness
- IE6 is like your creepy uncle; you don't like him, you don't want him around, but you still have to deal with him
- Google is simultaneously the most loved and most hated entity in your Universe
- corollary: you say "Google" more often than any other word in the English language
- you want to get bought by Yahoo! before Google edges you out of your market
- you know your users by IP address
- you no longer think TechCrunch is relevant, but would kill to have Arrington write about you
- ditto for digg
- you register for every Web 2.0 site and use them for an average of 8 minutes
- you judge people by their site's pagerank (or number of comments)
- if someone brings up the topic of PHP/.NET/Ruby they better get comfortable, because they're not going anywhere for awhile
- you run a hot, up-and-coming startup, but your parents have no idea what you're doing; they tell everyone you work "on computers"
- you create a blog post entitled "You know you're a web developer when..." instead of working on your hot, up-and-coming startup.
2 Comments:
"""you create a blog post entitled "You know you're a web developer when..." instead of working on your hot, up-and-coming startup."""
That's just displacement activity. Good luck with the startup!
By Steve, at 10:44 AM, March 12, 2007
you run a hot, up-and-coming startup, but your parents have no idea what you're doing; they tell everyone you work "on computers"
I have to say that's the best line ever, and it's true to boot.
By Garret, at 2:34 PM, March 15, 2007
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