You are most welcome. And thank you for the wonderful comment. I am glad to have helped you look from another point of view.

Thank you.

I agree that often someone can have such a negative impact that they can hurt the team.

My wife just shared with me a recent This American Life episode that talks about "bad apples" and has funny stories about experiments where they have an actor take on certain stereotypical bad apple roles.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.asp...

However, it seems to me that many traits that go into making a great developer also could give them "angry coder" tendencies: passion, striving to learn and improve techniques, wanting to share what you've learned with others.

Thank you. Yes, I think perfectionism is one of the key ingredients to making an angry coder. Applying perfect standards to yourself is hard, but once you start applying them to others too, it gets infinitely more difficult :)

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