I didn't make the comment, and don't necessarily support it, but I think I understand it. I think it's the result of hobby programming/hardware converging with

I didn't make the comment, and don't necessarily support it, but I think I understand it. I think it's the result of hobby programming/hardware converging with professional programming/hardware. The hacker scene collides with KickStarter. People used to have to carefully write assembler to get programmable electronics to do things and had to fit it inside a 1K EEPROM. Suddenly machines exist with literally a million times more memory for prices an order of magnitude less and reference points are suddenly thrown right off. I'm not that old (not yet 30) but for people >= a certain generation, I can understand why this all seems very very alien.