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Ted Dziuba Says, "I Don't Code In My Free Time"
theodp writes "When he gets some free time away from his gigs at startup Milo and The Register, you won't catch Ted Dziuba doing any recreational programming. And he wouldn't want to work for a company that doesn't hire those who don't code in their spare time. 'You know what's more awesome than spending my Saturday afternoon learning Haskell by hacking away at a few Project Euler problems?' asks Dziuba. 'F***, ANYTHING.'"
Europeans work?
Programming is a trade skill, not art.
Hmm, I code in my free time. My boss codes in his free time. So does his boss. We also read books about random stuff and discuss our biz, etc. The end result is that we trust each other to make intelligent choices and decisions at work: you can just do a $1MM project with a few minutes of explanation. Try doing that where the management chain doesn't really understand code.
I wouldn't hire, or work for, a person who treats programming as a 9 to 5 activity. Life is short, and the craft so long to learn.
"Americans live to work, but Europeans work to live"
I don't know; I guess I kind of like working instead of sitting on my ass like some kind of welfare state parasite. Thanks for the compliment.
> They simply cannot be stopped.
LOL.
> I'd never hire him.
right. because he's not a genius like you are.
you're some kind of artist, a visionary.
you're cool.
you're the best.
are you NEO?
Get with the times! He probably intends to write code in the future maybe, and the Nobel^H^H^H^H^HSlashdot committee decided to make him famous in anticipation.
I don't have kids. I get it. In fact, that's why I don't want kids. I don't understand what would motivate a person to give up the best years of their life for an ungrateful little snot.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Glad you don't want to have kids. Now I don't want you to have them either.
"I'm having difficulty understanding your dialect. Could you write a perl script to translate that to English, please?
-jcr" - by jcr (53032) on Monday October 12, @02:01AM (#29715975)
See subject-line above, + "drink that in, & digest it"...
(Somehow, I don't think you had ANY problem reading what I wrote, & are only ashamed of yourself for putting down someone who runs the Register & is doing well enough from it, whereas you have nothing like that going on in your life (especially in this field/art & science) like it, whatsoever, & are just bitter about it + ashamed to answer when you saw fit to critique others, yet, you do not have a "pot to piss in" even, yourself, to your credit when asked if you had or not!)
APK
P.S.=> You either need what's in my subject-line due to your poor attention span, or, you need "hooked on phonics" (or possibly remedial reading courses) - either way? If you didn't like what I said, you didn't have to read it (much less respond to it, because with problems like you apparently have, including putting down your betters with nothing to show for yourself?? You need 1 of those treatments, apparently)... apk