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I'm surprised at the reactions, both positive and negative. I took the manifesto as a humourous criticism of people using our love for programming as a way to exploit us.

As a programmer, I do most of the mocked off-hours activities (except the bathroom thing), but as a professional programmer, I happily leave the office in time.

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Indeed, I find the idea of "software development as art" much more palatable when it's coming from a fellow coder. More often than not I'm hearing this kind of talk from the management level where it sounds more like a rationale for long and irregular hours with very little reward.

I took the same view, I think there's been a kind of conflation of loving your profession and not being a 501 developer.

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