I'm not normally one to fuss much over typos, but I similarly found it hard to take the author seriously when he makes a typo in the very same sentence that he attempts to extol the superior intelligence of IT professionals of yore.
> In the past IT people, whether we're talking about programmers or something else, where very clever people.
If you're going to talk down to people and insult their intelligence, please at least have the good sense to spell "were" correctly.
> in the very same sentence that he attempts to extol the superior intelligence of IT professionals of yore.
Whenever someone tries to express this sort of of thing, I always have to wonder whether these superior professional of yore are pioneers of the industry back in days when commercial commuting was just starting to bud, but it’s always some guys from the mid-late 90s who seem much angrier.
> In the past IT people, whether we're talking about programmers or something else, where very clever people.
If you're going to talk down to people and insult their intelligence, please at least have the good sense to spell "were" correctly.