First of all, taking patio11 too seriously is a sing of having inadequate mental representation of so-called reality. Ironically, there is some unintentional t

First of all, taking patio11 too seriously is a sing of having inadequate mental representation of so-called reality. Ironically, there is some unintentional truth is his blogpost - one really shouldn't call oneself programmer, because what he described is a dumb coder. Programmer could realize what is blogging, not vise versa.) A programmer (one who understands how things works and why) will easily avoid such scenarios like ending up in a coding sweatshop or toxic things like PHP, Java or JavaScript. It is obvious that one should avoid certain things, like one avoids scams, frauds or just wrong things. Real programmers, such as rtm, pg (god forbid!) sysoev would always find a niche for oneself and a project to do. The difference is that they themselves would choose what to program and why, not someone else. Another point is about whose opinion one should value and why. Programmers usually does not care what "talking-heads" are broadcasting, intuitively and correctly anticipate that there would be zero useful or even interesting information for them. It is like to read, say, Oracle's press-releases and PR pamphlets about mysql instead of actual Changelog files. So, right, do not call yourself programmer if you're mere a coder or blogger. There is some truth in it.)