Oh I know, and believe me I've made my career off of it.

But boy do I ever hate dealing with them.

I am very sympathetic to these reactions. And in one sense, their frustration is completely justified: it should not be as hard as it is to download a program and run it.

I am the opposite of sympathetic to these reactions. If you can't download a fucking program and set a system variable you have no business programming. Go be a salesman or suck cocks for a living, anything that is fit to your level of mental development and ability.

I am so tired of marginal (to sub-marginal) shit stains cluttering up my profession. People like this, who want to learn programming because it pays well, and who do a quarter-ass job learning it, then shit up every office and development team I've seen in the last 15 years. It's like a plumber who barely knows how to lay pipe.