> This is common among a certain type of person and unheard of for everybody else.

I suspect the venn diagram of that is very close to the venn diagram of hn readers and everybody else.

I think "doesn't everyone here" is implied there.

Yeah, that's the thing I think you imagine is true but actually isn't. I'd guess that the majority of HN readers don't do this, assuming they represent average technical employee across the industry. They probably _could_ if they needed to.. but I bet they don't. (Just based on my sample of: all the people I've worked with).

> I'd guess that the majority of HN readers don't do this, assuming they represent average technical employee across the industry.

That would be the disagreement then I think: you and him have different models of the majority HN reader. Based on my experience in the industry and on hn, I also don't think the typical hn commenter represents the average technical employee. Perhaps the typical hn reader does, but then I have a lot less information about that group.

I don't think it's right to say he's "out of touch" for an off the hand remark like that, even regardless of this discussion.

e: also, there is a poll option for hn posts, it might be interesting to find out more about who does/doesn't do this.

Not to cast shade on you, by any means, but if you're an engineer (which I think is the implied everyone,) I'm surprised you don't!

> but if you're an engineer (which I think is the implied everyone,) I'm surprised you don't!

I’m an engineer but I only write programs for money and not for myself

Yeah, I'm an engineer. I'd guess that neither I nor most of my coworkers do. It's much more common amongst lower-level engineers than, say, product engineers. Heck, I work full time in Python + Typescript and I don't even know Bash. I never even have things I want to script. Most of my time is spent making sense of code, not doing any sort of complicated repeatable task.

So, what are you engineering? Ci/cd pipelines with ready made tools?

Full stack stuff, more or less.