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The key to this comment is "[t]he latest startup/trendy tech boom has made a disproportionate number of people of this type gravitate towards programming". The

• 4bpp 13y ago
  I understand that the sentence you quoted is easily construed as a cheap potshot at startups, but all I meant to say is that suddenly, there is a large number of people coding - and, more importantly, writing about coding - who did not grow up staring at mangled C++ debug symbols and hex dumps. I don't mean to say not doing that makes you a worse programmer - the difference does, however, seem to explain the composition of two groups who like shouting things to the effect of "I don't understand how you can find that easier to read than this" at each other.