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ken on April 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Guess I'm Not A 501 Developer

The big problem I see with the "501 manifesto" is that it assumes there is just one thing called "programming".

The kind of programming that was fun for me when I was young is completely different than the kind of programming that employers pay for today.

Why do you think people are spending their free time on Github? They miss programming for fun so much they'll do it for free.

swlkr on April 18, 2012 [–]

I totally agree with this. Programming for work and programming for myself are two totally different things. Maybe we're all 501ers when it comes to only wanting to give a certain amount of time to your employer.

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