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Deep.

your life seems ruined.

There is some truth to what bloid says. However, there must be a very high degree of commitment for someone to reach that level of obsession. I don't think I ever was like he describes. I do sometimes wonder why my wife doesn't see that the waste basket's plastic bag has to be inserted in a certain way. I guess it is because she is not a programmer.

-- Just to note, I just posted the link, and those are not neccessarially my thoughts ;-)

A very well-written piece.

for me its BS, on the begining it looked like he was going somewhere, but then ..... pointless.

If you don't like the way your life is going, and you don't like what you're doing, then you owe it to yourself to change it. Don't like programming and feel like it's ruining your life? Do something else. That may mean an upheaval to your lifestyle, but in the end, isn't being happy or content more important?

Dude....

I'm so depressed.

Time to reboot!

The only way it ruins my life is when I have to track down bugs that some dunderhead (worse if it was me!) introduced into the system.

Absurd...

The health risks apply to anyone in an office environment.

Any intellectual career will result in "thinking in the shower/at night".

For a real example of the danger of the "romantic allure", talk to aspiring actors and musicians.

You have got to be a stupid coder to neglect your health, be guilty about not working and staying a perfectionist; get real you need a healthy body to code and live well, guilt is damned stupid (work ethic slave BS) and pragmatism shows maturity, because you realise the bogusness of perfection and dogma. There seems to be far more important stuff out their like having an affordable life and realising that the sub-prime crisis maybe just the tip of a colossal junk money iceberg!