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You think I'm enraged? I'm sitting here chuckling and shaking my head in bemusement at you.

> I'm surprised your so proud that your team will never have a free account on the largest repository of open source.

I'm not proud of it. When I say it's unlikely to change, I'm making a considered prediction. Don't confuse 'is' and ought'.

> Thats a rather baseless statement. What would you know about my ability to code or not to code.

It's not baseless. It's Bayesian statistics. They are enough sigmas above the mean that I feel comfortable making that bet. If you were to reveal your identity and it turned out you were, say, Guido van Rossom, I might lose the bet and have to update my prior.

> You mean people that are passionate enough about programming to voluntarily write code on evenings and weekend and share it for the broader community of developers

Nah, I mean people who assume anyone who isn't exactly like them must be a second-rate human being or at least a second-rate member of their profession. This is the same personality flaw that turns enthusiastic, inveterate puzzle solvers into the kind of puzzle-mad interviewers you seem to hate with a vengeance. Isn't it nice to find out you have something in common?



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