[haploid]

We Internet geeks are being profiled as "cool" in the mainstream press, girls are more interested in us than Wall St. people or lawyers ... What happened to the days when I got made fun of for being on a computer all day?

What? I have never seen this. This could just be a NYC/SF thing( as the author points out )but outside those zones, I can't imagine this to be even remotely true. Nerd groupies? Ha.

To quote Ballmer's character in Pirates of Silicon Valley, "..they were moaning, 'oh, computer language, Oh Fortran! OH FORTRAN, OOOHHHHH!'"

[true_religion]

It's actually a Virginia/UK thing too. If I tell anyone that I'm a software engineer their first answer is "eh? money is good huh?" with a wink and a nudge.

As far as social cred---we don't get as much as doctors since we don't save lives, but we have at least as much as lawyers.