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I see your point and I suspect that that's what the author meant.

At the same time, I know lots of, well, arrogant nerds who get into "existential sigh" mode as soon as someone with less technical skill than them says something stupid. That's more how I read it.




Ah, yes, I see how that is another valid interpretation.

I guess for me the word existential is a bit different. For an arrogant developer it would have been something like ‘long-suffering sigh’.

Unless, I guess, you feel you are so smart that your entire life is defined by interacting with morons :P




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