A few points: 1. There is no guild. Just a cultural and perhaps even a generational gap. 2. This "guild" is not isolated to Silicon Valley. I would ventur

A few points: 1. There is no guild. Just a cultural and perhaps even a generational gap. 2. This "guild" is not isolated to Silicon Valley. I would venture to guess that the neckbeard-to-hipster ratio is far higher everywhere outside of the Bay Area. 3. There is a minor inconsistency in the claim that the neckbeards don't use social media, and the claim that they receive recruiting messages on LinkedIn. 4. The neckbeards most assuredly DO use perl.