First, the "know how to do it dudes" thing is kind of lame. But that's not super relevant to the argument he's making. I think the author has an interesting i

First, the "know how to do it dudes" thing is kind of lame. But that's not super relevant to the argument he's making. I think the author has an interesting idea, but kind of fails to follow it through to the end. More than anything, he's hinted at a division that I think is present here at HN. My only beef is that he was kind of a dick about why 'real programmers' would do what they do. "Of course it does not mean they're destined to work their whole life like that - they can still quit and start their own company, but probably not as much because they want more money and their own business, but more because they disagree with, say, the corporate policy for brackets {} style." This, as much as anything, solidifies the authors argument that he is not a "real programmer". I think that real programmers get excited in the same way that the "dude who ..." (and so on) does, but only about products that have the properties of both being incredibly technologically interesting as well as useful. This is arguably where things like Linux and Google came from.