[rorymarinich]

See, even now, my talking about this comes off as confrontational, to no effect. I still think it was better for the original conversation to leave it out.

Nah, that's a completely sensible point. I don't think it's hard to make programming seem cool, though: there are some very awesome things that've been made. WeFeelFine comes to mind. Talk about how something beautiful like that was made and it'll at least make people realize more that programmers can be artists, too. (Not the best example, but it's what first comes to mind.)

Have I ignored something else that annoys you?

Nope.

Sure. The way it's written, it seems like you are referring to all nerds, but I will assume that this is not the case.

Yeah. I could revise this, but I don't think it would be worth it. It wasn't a major piece of writing, in any event.