There is an implicit attitude I've felt in the dev community that you're supposed to spend every waking moment of your life absorbing information about your work.
Seeing how I'm commenting at 11 PM on a Sunday on this I guess I'm among those that do spend every waking moment on this stuff, but a lot of developers don't because its just a job.
Being up to date is one thing, doing it on your off time is another.
Sure, I agree there's lots of professional pressure on our outside-work time. But I haven't seen the attitude that if you're not self-employed, or aspire to be an entrepreneur, then you're a parasite, a "taker".
(My read on the "just a job" in the linked article is that it was referring to people not wanting to freelance, rather than people who wanted to work-for-the-weekend.)
Seeing how I'm commenting at 11 PM on a Sunday on this I guess I'm among those that do spend every waking moment on this stuff, but a lot of developers don't because its just a job.
Being up to date is one thing, doing it on your off time is another.