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by PhasmaFelis 2607 days ago
Obviously. But no one is being pressured to not code at home by their peers and employers.
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> Obviously. But no one is being pressured to not code at home by their peers and employers.

Except everyone is. The people calling us "nerds" having "no life" only recently shut up, and that's because they see how much money this occupation nets and now are silently jealous. But if some of them asks you "what are you up to this weekend", and you say "coding $sideproject", they'll look at you weird.

That's all on top of the social pressure to "not be on the computer so much".

Except when they imply that it's "not having a life".
Some guy with a blog accidentally implying a mild insult is hardly the same thing.