> People don't realise that others are forming real life opinions on these memes. Maybe, but if any non-developer internalizes a worldview from those memes...t

> People don't realise that others are forming real life opinions on these memes. Maybe, but if any non-developer internalizes a worldview from those memes...that really just means they're blind to the usually worse offenses in other careers. While not perfect, measuring programmer productivity is infinitely easier than a long list of other job roles. At the top of that list is "middle manager". We take hits on the chin about elitism, sexism, whatever other low-point of human nature. Meanwhile, whoever is spewing the critique fails to notice that in practically any other role, the *-isms are worse and harder to prove.