>It's quite something to denounce the arrogance and pompousness of others while proclaiming that they "haven't seen the light" and declaring they've taken the easy path in life.

I said that because the parents comment was just plain rude. It really pissed me off. It's like "News Flash: Something obvious you should know". So my response was basically, "No bro, you're wrong." with a bit of rudeness injected in.

Still what I'm referring to is legit. The sheer amount of programming analogies on HN is through the roof. I see one every other day. Sure other careers like to do comparisons but the amount is nowhere near the volume of programming analogy blog posts.

There's definitely a sort of intellectual arrogance programmers have and you can feel it on HN. A lot of articles related to IQ and intelligence always get voted up and the comments become littered with self affirmations. No doubt in my mind this blog post and other programming analogy blog posts is related to this.

Don’t bother, this commenter has just been following me across threads today. I think I said something they didn’t like somewhere else.