> Programming, maintenance, scaling, etc, is not hard. > If you think it is hard you are either doing it wrong, or it's the wrong job for your personality.

You're replying to jrockway. Perhaps you could curb your arrogance. Programming is indeed an extremely hard topic filled with compromises and tradeoffs that are often unattractive.

Picking the correct solution that fulfills time, effort, complexity constraints is why some people are paid so well.