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I think the distinction is more between people who want to keep fresh and those who don't - yes, I've known a fair few who are still happy to do everything in VB6 or something of the sort and often marveled at how excruciatingly boring that must be. Can you imagine spending twenty years doing exactly the same thing every day? That would kill me!
Slogans aren't solutions.
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PeejayAdams wrote: I don't know any lawyers who go home and do law stuff for fun. I don't know any doctors who go out looking for random people to treat in their spare time.
On the contrary, I know several lawyers that are very active in the community, offering evening and weekend consultations for free to women's shelters, doing pro bono work, etc. Similar with doctors, though the restrictions are significant of course, there are still doctors that will hold workshops on healthy diet, informing people about the latest medications, etc.
Marc
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Yes, I know (and heartily applaud) many who do pro bono work but the survey question is about hobby work and I don't know any who do that.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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I totally agreed. When I interviewing candidates, my last question is "What do you do in your free time?" If the candidate say coding or tinkering other related stuff, he is hired. What I've found is that developers who love the trade enough to do hobby on the side are going to be much more in-tune with the skills and technologies. Not only that, he/she going to have much more passion over those that "I only code when I get paid." If a candidate shows any indication that he/she only code while being paid, not hired.
Developers who have creative hobbies on the side will always be better problem solver.
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Do they have a job?
I worked much less on my open source repos but mainly focusing on a private repo. Hopefully to release my free app later this year to earn some advertisement money.
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They calculated per year, not per day...
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The poll is actually per WEEK.
Although it isn't very clear from the poll
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I interpreted it as hours per project.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Yep, if you're concentrating that much on your out-of-work projects, you must not be doing a very good job at work.
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I think is do-able even with a full time job . Sleep 4 hours a day + no wife and kids.
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Bryian Tan wrote: Sleep 4 hours a day + no wife and kids life.
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Albert Holguin wrote: Yep, if you're concentrating that much on your out-of-work projects, you must not be doing a very good job at work.
I'm thinking they're napping upright while running recorded videos of someone coding.
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6+ hrs each weekday + 15 hrs on Saturday + 15 hrs on Sunday
For those who
1. works on open source project apart from job.
2. trying their startups apart from job.
3. Freelance developer with more bandwidth.
and so on...
Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.
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...and obviously they are not jokers.
Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.
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Yes, and some of us are retired, don't have a "real" job and have taken up coding for pure interest and joy as a hobby.
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but the Code Challenges are helping...
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