Shaw is fortysomething, one of maybe twelve fortysomethings on the Campus. One grudgingly has to respect someone who’s fortysomething and still in computers—there’s a core techiness there that must be respected. Shaw still remembers the Flintstones era of computers, with punch cards and little birds inside the machines that squawked, “It’s a living.” My only problem with Shaw is that he became a manager and stopped coding. Being a manager is all hand-holding and paperwork—not creative at all. Respect is based on how much of a techie you are and how much coding you do. Managers either code or
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