How Should We Treat Each Other Here?
tom_rath: Well, your comment:""landing a job as an accountant"
"I wish I had gone to prison"
What's the difference?"Didn't add anything to the discussion more than a brief joke which attacks those who have chosen a difficult, strongly certified profession different than your own 'hacker' lifestyle.  It's typical of the insular cliquishness which plagues all communities, including this one, and was more nasty than funny.Kyro's comment seemed justified and would be appropriate to say to your face if he overheard you in a social setting.Would you have delivered your own joke face-to-face to an accountant?Further, would you have used your reputation in that 'real world' community to try to shoot him down the day after, as you're doing now?