so you think you're smart?

well guess what?

intelligent people don't program for a living

What makes you think anyone here programs, let alone professionally?

intelligent people don't program for a living
/prog/ must be really smart then.

Well that's bullshit OP. If you enjoy something, why not get paid for it?

b..but paul graham said... I..

If you want to see stupid, go to /g/, /pol/, and /tv/.

>>4
You enjoy ENTERPRISE SCALABLE CLOUD SOLUTIONS programming? That's sad.

I'm not intelligent. I'm knowledgeable and capable of following simple instructions.

>>7
This may surprise you, but I invented the "enterprise" meme.

>>1
Duh! They program as a hobby, and get rewarded on the process.

What are you, another Webdev /k/id?

>>6
go to /g/, /pol/, and /tv/
Why would we need to do that?

>>8
i know that sad feeling when all rednecks around keeps talk along the lines "he's smart" but you know you're not for a long time now. being in the middle only one realize the enormous size of trench between geniuses and intellectual majority and that nobody ever will be capable to do anything about that.
i'm letting chaos to speak from my heart since then.
it does not help anything, it just makes you feel better.

I heard that people who are great at something, just stops whenever they get economically independent. This is also true for any other profession. People just stop doing what they're great at. Isn't that great and pretty much what you said? Wow.

>>13
Total crap. Academia in the old days pretty much meant economical independence.
Now think about all the people that dug their talent just because they could not find appropriate economical appliance.

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