The blindness and self-absorbance in this post is so infuriating I find myself constantly removing personal attacks on you from this comment. It's safe to say

The blindness and self-absorbance in this post is so infuriating I find myself constantly removing personal attacks on you from this comment. It's safe to say I feel offended by this, I consider myself to be a 'brogrammer' or 'popped collar programmer'. I work in coffee-shops and co-working spaces for a non-venture backed profitable startup. I wear sunglasses in my profile picture, and I love a bunch of awesome technologies people have created in recent years. The assumptions you make about popped collar programmers are ridiculous. Yes we pick out cool t-shirts and wear huge rubber watches. We don't wear fedoras, that makes no sense at all. But spending money on our appearance because we actually feel good about ourselves has nothing to do with our commitment to robust software as you so childishly remark. Ofcourse feeling good about yourself and having fun using new technologies is something you must not do as a programmer. God forbid you actually use a technology that's brings you out of your comfort zone. Have fun nailing the nails to your NIH-syndrome coffin with your Microsoft branded hammer. You make it seem like these popped collar programmers get hyped for no good reason about some technology and then use it for the rest of their lives for every problem they encounter, but this is where we differ from you. You see while you think it's pragmatic to use the technology you already randomly acquired for everything you see (like it's a good idea to build a blog engine in friggin' .net), these brogrammers actually work on accumulating a diverse toolset from a plethora of sources other programmers are passionate about. While you are busy vomiting over some guys 'Hadoop + Riak + Redis + Clojure-powered blog platform' that same guy has attained the skill and knowledge to build robust scalable websites. And he will be able to host it on open platforms and leverage the knowledge of passionate user communities. I bet he'll do it in the time it takes you to boot up a single Azure instance too. I'll tell anyone. Be that guy. Be. That. Guy. The guy who has fun, the guy who loves his technologies, loves learning new stuff and doesn't give a rats ass if his blog that has 2 monthly visitors runs inefficiently because he had a blast developing it and felt totally awesome when he told his buddies and they thought it was cool too. Oh, and you look totally rad in that picture with the sunglasses, the moustache and the big watch so good for you. p.s.: I develop in Ruby (on Rails) and Javascript (on Node) for a living. I develop in Haskell and C for academic purposes and I use C# (with XNA and mono) for my current hobby project.