This "we're anything but" mindset is self-perpetuating. 10-25 years from now the next generation of programmers will be saying the same thing. Before 1995 the c

This "we're anything but" mindset is self-perpetuating. 10-25 years from now the next generation of programmers will be saying the same thing. Before 1995 the concept of spending a weekend, making a reasonably functional web app and having the entire planet access it at a moment's notice simply was not feasible to even entertain mentally to anyone except those in academic and military circles who already had access to the Internet, and even then the "reasonably functional in a weekend" was not part of that equation. If we stop focusing on what's "wrong" and take a moment to see how incredible people's reach and speed-to-market is compared to even 10-15 years ago, we might actually take a moment to stop talking about how terrible everything is and marvel at just how far we've come. Glass half-full is what I'm trying to accomplish here.