On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:22:30PM +0300, Yossi Kreinin wrote: > Robert Rothenberg wrote: > > > >Surely the better candidates have written some code for their own personal > >use or even to share with the wider world. > > > > 4 out of the best 5 programmers I know haven't. Personally, I started > programming projects in the background a couple of times but it didn't > really get very far, and the last time I did it was a long time ago. > > Here are some reasons for a strong programmer not to program outside of the > office: > > * If you have a good job, you're likely to get to do whatever kind of work > you want to do as part of that job anyway. > * You might be interested in and/or be good at other things which can > occupy your spare time. > * For a project to succeed (as in have any side effects in addition to > having the code take bytes on your hard drive), you may need more than just > good code (ranging from equipment to time/skills needed to communicate with > other people). You may prefer some organization to deal with it and > concentrate on programming. > * You hate software. You only want to write good code when you work with > other people on something, and you want the software not to exceed a > hatefulness threshold so that people dealing with it are not too miserable.
* You have more interests than coding, and spend your time away from the office on the other things you like. Abigail
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