perfect, exactly. this kind of "501ers drop the ball and repeatedly let down their colleagues" is just the kind of chuckleheaded received wisdom that the ninja coders have been putting about for too long. we should all challenge it.
> We (programmers) are a culture now, and usually the passionate ones are the ones that are being mocked.
nonsense. the tear-jerking displays of ninja butthurt i've seen from certain quarters since i wrote the manifesto should leave no-one in any doubt just who is, and who isn't, accustomed to being mocked.