Talk:Code monkey

message: Must add the jargon file reference
Project2501a 17:23, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Jargon file

message: Isn't the derivation also loosely attached to the infinite monkey theorem? Enough code monkeys producing decent code, etc? --131.111.143.208 10:54, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I doubt there's any significant connection.  The derivation is from "tape monkey", which was a systems administrator on an old system that used reel-to-reel tapes.  The admin's job was primarily to swap tapes out as needed to load the approprite programs and/or data, and the joke was that the job could be performed equally as well by a trained monkey.  There is a recent jargon term (a decade old) that does have a close association with the infinite monkey theorem, but the association is parallel, not derivative.  In a 1995 Dilbert strip, Dilbert asks Ratbert to do "his little rat dance" on the keyboard to produce bugs for Dilbert to fix (as the PHM had offered a per-bug bounty for fixes).  Rather than creating bugs, Ratbert accidentally authors a web browser.  See http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/R/rat-dance.html for more.  scot 18:23, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Why aren't a more explicit reference to this? I think "code monkey" term needs a proper Wikipedia article Timofonic (talk) 18:37, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Derivation

message: There's a whole bunch of repetitions in the text. User:Dalen_talas 12/05/2006
:I've tightened up the text and provided references for as much as I can, so I'm going to yank the cleanup tag based on that work.  scot 14:49, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: Almost word for word the same article. Joncnunn 20:13, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, if it is established that "web monkey" is a subset of "code monkey"--maybe have a sub-section covering code monkey variants?  Since the original was tape monkey, that should probably form the intro, and the article one-banana problem can be merged in as well.  scot 20:37, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

text: What about this? Why this didn't receive enough love? Timofonic (talk) 19:15, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge web monkey into this article 

message: The etymology might lie in the UK/Australian term grease monkey.
:That term is used in the US as well, and that may be the root of the original "tape monkey" use.  That should probably be mentioned there.  scot 14:00, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why not proper mentions about this in the current article? :( Timofonic (talk) 19:17, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grease Monkey 

message: When I clicked on the external link for the code monkey t-shirt, it took me to the google image search. It should either be fixed or removed.
:Yep, I found that shirt through a Google image search, and obviously pasted that link in by mistake.  It's fixed now.  scot 15:00, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What happened? Where is it? Timofonic (talk) 19:18, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Code Monkey T-Shirt Link 

message: Looks like this link is down. I'll remove it. Ihatecrayons 05:05, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why did you do this? There's Wayback Machine for that https://web.archive.org/web/20060111214429/http://www.digitaldroo.com:80/monkeydevelopers.html Timofonic (talk) 19:22, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ballmer Link 

message: I'm not sure about the following:
The term can also apply to amateur computer programmers who stitch together snippets of code found on the internet and in books to make an application, without having an appreciation or understanding what the principles behind the code or the concept of coding are.
That seems to me to be a definition for script kiddie, rather than code monkey --JamesTheNumberless 10:45, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: To me, it sounds more like code monkey. To me a script kiddie only uses others tools. As far as I know they don't build their own tools from snippets. 216.36.188.184 (talk) 11:54, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

text: This usage seems interesting. Why did get removed? Timofonic (talk) 19:23, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  misplaced definition? 

message: I am removing the entire derogatory use section for now since it is practically unsourced, reference 2 is a jargon file link to script kiddie, and ref 3 which seems to be really the reference the entire section seems to be based on references code jockey which is a separate term and even then it is not a great reference for an entire integral paragraph.  Cat-five - talk 01:58, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's sad the article got reduced to ashes. Too many excuses to remove, too little efforts to improve them. Timofonic (talk) 19:28, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Derogatory use section 

message: The picture seems kinda un-related to the article, it won't exactly add any useful information.Omegakingboo (talk) 03:04, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  picture 

message: In an effort to clear the massive notability backlog, I went out on a limb and turned this page into a disambiguation page.  Here is a link to the last article version of the page.  If you disagree with this action, please feel free to revert and leave me a note about it.  Thanks! --Andrew (User:90) (talk) 20:20, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Disambiguation might become ambiguous too. Some names are a derivation of the "code monkey" jargon term too: Do they deserve separate pages this way or mention it in the "code monkey" article? Timofonic (talk) 19:32, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation 

message: I have been
Ucybers00 41.142.195.46 (talk) 19:07, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  English