What you're scanning as hostility is exasperation. I have been writing code for twenty years and getting paid for it for twelve. That's not a "get off my lawn," either, not least because I don't know many 27-year-olds in the Boston area with a lawn and I certainly don't have one either. That's a "get out of the basement and go outside." I am remarkably sick and tired of the endemic social insecurity that runs through this industry. There are so very many fun examples of it around here - I miss @shithnsays desperately. At some point in the last couple years I finally grew up to the point where I realized that the tireless posturing and wellactuallying just doesn't get anyone anywhere. When the best he could do was "oh, you only know four languages, smarm smarm smarm," the jimmies, they were rustled.
At least if you're going to be That Guy who everyone hates dealing with ever, be right about it.
(Also I'm drinking, and somewhere between two and five in the morning I sort of explode into a particularly prickly thesaurus. It's a medical condition. I have a doctor's note. Don't judge me.)
I hear you but various studies show that negative feedback actually exasperates the problem instead of helping to fix it. When people are given negative feedback their subsequent contributions are of even lower quality and also more numerous.
