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Poll results suggest you're not in the monority. I also spend a lot of my spare time wirting some experimental code. I like to learn new things on and off the job. Seeing as one of the guys I work with has a mathematics degree, we're always challenging each other to solve some complex, or weird mathematical problem using .NET code.
I actually found the question to be a bit redundance, because for me, coding is fun. 
Let's make things simpler than possible.
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Maybe I am odd that way but I can sit down, write a mini-spec and start writing code and find that it actually relaxes me.
Not sure why, maybe I'm odd, but the process of solving a small problem like that focuses me and draws my attention away from the other cr*p that happens during the day.
Does not ALWAYS work, but it has proven to be effective in the past. It also helps me stay sharp since my recent role as an architect where I work has seemingly taken me away from the 'code' side of the business more and more. This gives me the opportunity to keep my hands dirty and not forget what the real work means in the end.
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Ray Cassick wrote: since my recent role as an architect
I find this a constant battle, the compromise between designing, mentoring and acutally building the solution is just irritating. I used to produce 3 times as much when I was just a developer.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I can see that as frustrating, but I have to admit there is something about being on the design side. Compromise is in everything, not matter what you do. I find that if the team is good and the communication is open (I admit that it is not always and I have been put through a ton of crap before) I really find it rewarding.
I do miss coding though and that's why I have a bunch of pet projects 
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The idea that we DON'T code for fun I find amusing. I think I'd give it up if I didn't look forward to work at least part of the time.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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In real life (When I was a chemist), I used to code for the pleasure of it.
Now, I do for money what I used to do for pleasure.
Not much different than a hooker.
/xml> "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
| "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
| "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek dissappointment. If you are searching for perfection in yourself, then you seek failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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Balboos wrote: Not much different than a hooker.
I once told an spit agent I was a tart, code for money and that made him a pimp, he was not impressed.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I worked for a guy who said
"We're all whores, we're just haggling over the price"
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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How can you not code for fun, or non-job related? I think most developers have a drive to continue learning and you can't always do that on the clock.
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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It's just that sometimes there is no clock left.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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i don't care much about 'learning', per se; i just like to write programs.
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And not just because I'm currently unemployed. On my last job every day was fun.
If I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't do it. That's why I don't do that Web crap (or Java or VB).
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: that Web crap
Some of it's pretty fun - coding a web remote-control for one of these[^] things was pretty fun. Basically you could fire off a 2T pulse though a web-page, (bearing in mind the world record is something like 20T).
I doubt it. If it isn't intuitive then we need to fix it. - Chris Maunder
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I do code in my spare time but it's usually something which will probably get built for work eventually. I have a programming language compiler and run time called Tyke which I have developed over many iterations over many years - it started life written in SPL (PL/1 type language) on a Prime computer, then got rewritten in C on a unix box then C++ on a PC then C# on a PC. I still add features to it for my own purposes but they all eventually get used in the version we have at work.
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rocks! 
d{^__^}b - it's time to fly
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But lately (since the start of the year), work has just burnt me out 
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Consider making some changes. Do you want to live for that way? (i know sometimes you gotta stay tuff)
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Same here. Overworked for over a year.
After I do get home, all I can think about is food and Left4Dead.
NULL
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leppie wrote: work has just burnt me out
I was that way, and then made the switch from unmanaged C++ to .Net. Now, instead of being burnt out, I'm pissed off...
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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