[tastroder]

> Curiosity and obsession are a couple of the key differentiators between a workaday jobber in it for the money (like many who flocked to tech in the dot-com times) and a badass.

Unit tests and sensible comments are a couple of the key differentiators between a workaday jobber in it for the money and a badass. And now what? While I kind of agree that some people might be in the wrong job, that's true for every profession and the comparison seems lacking. If we're talking day job programming, a badass is neither a requirement, nor desirable in most environments honestly.