Thanks for posting this fractallyte! We're separated by an ocean, so I'm glad I can see this digitised.
To answer you dang (first, I don't consider myself that), I work as a consultant currently writing C#/.NET code for a large corporation. But hopefully one of my side projects (using various other technology stacks) will pan out one day, and I'll be able to escape, like many of us here dream about (and many have already achieved) :)
I hope you do and also that you continue to participate on Hacker News. Between kens outdoing himself with the wonderful OP, and all the other historical contributions here, this has my vote for the best HN thread in quite a while.
Do you and your genius brother still write code?