Surely it is no sin to state one's bio on one's own blog. Especially if one avoids using phrases like "in your face, clueless peons!!!"

The next time I write my boilerplate bio, I'm totally going to use that line.

Just kidding. (Can people on HN read sarcasm? I never know.)

Let's adopt this attitude toward those who use what we might consider inferior tools (PHP in this example): it is harder to succeed with an inferior tool, thus success with it is to be all the more admired - in the same way that one might admire someone who implemented a web server on a TRS-80, or dug a basement with a simple shovel.

From there, one can ask: why did you do it that way? And then do our best to learn from the answer.

It seemed to me like a boilerplate signature, mainly because of the italics.

And that's the point: her boilerplate signature is basically exactly the sort of thing she's complaining about (as far as I can tell from the post, which, admittedly, left me somewhat confused).

She's not complaining about people having experience or qualifications, she's complaining about attitudes some people have as a result.

Exactly. Thanks. Besides, I include that mostly to show that I think like an 18 year old. I'm talking mostly about behavior I've seen from other 18 year olds. That's where I am in the world right now.

Sorry, but, actually, intern, not developer.

Indeed.