I used to think that programmers were smart because we could talk to machines. The shallowness of a lot of the posts on this emotional and contentious topic re

I used to think that programmers were smart because we could talk to machines. The shallowness of a lot of the posts on this emotional and contentious topic reinforce what I've learned since: on average programmers are not that smart, which is why they need to talk to simple machines. Basically, try to discuss something that ends in "ism", and otherwise reasonable people go all ape-shit.