people are just really condescending on here. I'm not COMPLAINING, I'm stating a fact, something that you probably feel the instinct to quibble about if you're one of the people who talks about how long you've been programming, how surprised you are to see the same programming mistakes crop up in all these beginner programmers, and basically how easy it is to do anything someone else seems to be having trouble with. And then you tell them how to do it - obviously after you've arrogantly established your superiority.
Cue comment: "You don't have to read those posts. This is a programming board, not a therapy circle jerk." It's like you don't know how else to be, like you think you've been having coffee with Charles Babbage for the last thirty years and you've been exchanging notes, like you're the only one who did your homework in college or impressed the teacher or figured something out or like you're part of an elite technical group beyond the semantic gap of what's comprehensible for 99% of the population.
*climbs down off soapbox