[coldtea]

>Seems to me the article is fighting some kind of giant strawman. I myself haven't experiences this kind of attitude.

For real? Because it shows up in HN all the time.

E.g. for what he writes:

>The IT world is rife with this ‘no true programmer’ nonsense, the ‘real’ programmers are the ones that have mastered ‘x’ (insert name of arcane and difficult to use programming language here), the rest is still stuck on ‘y’ (insert accessible and easy to use language here). The latter of course aren’t real programmers, if they were then they would get it.

How's that not an example of "the Blub" reasoning? http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html