I suspect that what is really going on here is that workers who love their job actually prefer to work hard AND good programmers love their job. So it is probab

I suspect that what is really going on here is that workers who love their job actually prefer to work hard AND good programmers love their job. So it is probably true that good programmers actually prefer to work hard, but that is not the whole truth... Also, since most workers don't love their job, it is probably also true that good programmers are unlike many workers. To say that programmers are unlike many TYPES OF workers we'd have to believe that a higher proportion of programmers love their job than do workers in other types of work. From what I have seen on HN (albeit sample biased) I'd say that is true.