As a web dev reading this, this must be how my mom thinks about my work. It seems a bit like wizardry.
I'm a kernel dev (FreeBSD), and this all made perfect sense to me. But a lot of web dev stuff I read about here seems like wizardry to me!
Or they're just faster at learning stuff than you, or smarter :) Sounds like a pretty interesting life.
Hinting that the jailbreaking/security community has no life, on a site called "Hacker News", where most of us have some sort of hacker spirit, is misguided at best.