Yes, as I’m sure the commenters above me are as well. The context of this being on HN is important, and I’d be a lot less likely to say an arbitrary person could do this project on some other forum.
The shared delusion of HNer's that they are intellectually superior the rest of humanity because they write computer software continues to astound and infuriate me.
I wouldn't call athletes "physically superior" either. That kind of supremacist talk is looked askance upon, for good reason.
But they're definitely faster/more coordinated/stronger than average, pretty much by definition. They can be proud of that.
Computer programmers are also smarter than average. If they weren't, they wouldn't stick around. It's not physics or higher maths; I figure anyone above the 80th percentile can do a good job of it, and some people in 60-80th can get the hang if it, but will probably never be great.
That's just the way it is. Phrasing it as being intellectually superior to the rest of humanity, that's just your hangup.
While that’s definitely frustrating sometimes on HN, that’s nowhere near what has been expressed in this thread (at least not in the comment you replied to).
