Programming is a Pop Culture
<i>This is who we are and what we do.</i><p>Not me.<p>I'm one of those programmers who's been doing this for a million years and would much rather talk about my customers' issues than my own.<p>To me, programming is just a means to an end. The real issue has always been solving the customer's problem, whether I had to dig deeply into the architecture, use fashionable high level tools, or just resort to pencil, paper, and duct tape. Some of my most rewarding accomplishments have been decidedly "low tech".<p>I usually find programming meet-ups boring and language centric threads here on Hacker News pointless.<p>I realize that most programmers don't feel the way I do...so, if programmers are outliers among normals and I'm an outlier among programmers, does that make me an outlier squared or an inlier?