You really need to learn more about bioinformaticians’ contributions to computing before making an ignorant and knowingly offensive comment like this.
Disclaimer: my background has absolutely no overlap with biology/bioinformatics.
I know about bioinformatics and the contributions of biology to computer science and vice versa. I've personally worked in both field sampling and data analysis. My overly offensive generalized statement was a light jab towards field biologists i've known, including my own friends who i've debated on this subject with, who tend to dislike computers and will go as far to avoid even excel and hand write their data while doing all math on a calculator. It really wasn't meant to be taken seriously and I suppose would go above the head of those who haven't spent a lot of time in the field with biologists.
Okay, sorry about the misinterpretation, but it should have been clear to you that ggp was referring to computational biologists or bioinformaticians, making your observations rather unrelated.
Most biologists I met were far more comfortable in the pissing rain, up the mountain, in the middle of nowhere collecting animal shit than in front of a keyboard.
If there were a Venn diagram of biologists and computer and technology enthusiasts the overlap would need a micrometer to be read.
Disclaimer: Please take this extremely generalized and likely offensive to one of those small few in that tiny overlap I mentioned, statement with a grain of salt. Please don't take this too seriously, it's just from my own narrow sampling of people i've interacted with which is may or may not be representative of the overall population.