I wasn't initially attempting to shut the poster down because they weren't a professional. In later posts I did devolve into saying "well you're not there, man

I wasn't initially attempting to shut the poster down because they weren't a professional. In later posts I did devolve into saying "well you're not there, man". What I was initially criticizing was the false humility that somehow made not being a professional into a kind of virtue, affording the poster a greater insight than actual professionals: As a 'hobbyist' programmer who makes his money outside of the software game, ... the programming tech treadmill is one of the most cringe inducing phenomena I've ever witnessed - particularly in scripting languages... I've since learned to use programming languages to solve problems I care about. If that makes me the forever-novice then I'm cool with that.