Slashdot spotted this from good old Joel on Software

One word of caution: the article seems like an appeal for the prima-donnas in the software industry. Anyone with a few years of experience has endured the pains of diva team members screwing the mood, atmosphere, and ultimately the project. Talent and dedication are the most important traits in a programmer; knowledge can be acquired, experience is just a matter of time, but talent is innate, and dedication is a part of the personality.

Dedication to what?

Dedication to create the best software that can be created. That’s what separates the divas from the truly good programmers. Divas usually care only about the code they write, and bitch about the code they didn’t write.

Somewhere in the /. comments, someone gave this interesting link: http://thedailywtf.com/