I’d be incredibly surprised if this smug attitude would last someone til their deathbed. I truly don’t understand how when faced with your own mortality you wou

I’d be incredibly surprised if this smug attitude would last someone til their deathbed. I truly don’t understand how when faced with your own mortality you wouldn’t suddenly see through your own BS and realised you’ve dedicated this much time to manicuring your public image in an attempt to impress other over-educated faux-intellectuals. It’s a great example of there being These Sorts Of People in all communities, classes, cultures, etc. it’s why I’ve gotta roll my eyes when someone implies that people that write software for a living are somehow impartial, infallible, logical, gods amongst men. We’ve got all this same shit going on in our professional community, just like everyone else. Remember Kenneth Reitz? How about the hoards of self-professed YouTube educators? Or those few greybeard hackers that rose to and maintain their notoriety pretty much entirely because they were in Berkeley in the ‘80s or whatever. We just fall for it when people dress down and wear glasses or whatever.