On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm busy and pissed off at the amount of time I've spent on > lilypond. Approximately three thousand hours now... and I stopped > composing and arranging *FOUR YEARS* ago. > > What does three thousand hours mean? Well, if I was paid minimum > wage (in my province), that would give me an extra $24,000 > dollars. If I got my graduate student TA wage -- which is a > better judge, given that there's always a need for more computer > science TAs at my university (so I could have been working extra > hours), and given the amount of technical and leadership ability > that was required of me -- that would give me $60,000. Since I > live on less than $10,000 per year, including tuition and > textbooks, that's a *lot* of money to me. > I've easily spent much more time than that, and also in terms of money, if you consider what good programmers make. Perhaps I regret some of it, but mostly because I should probably have spent more time chasing girls and getting drunk. Nevertheless, it's been a valuable experience for me, and although I spend much less time now -and that suits me fine- I'm not at all angry for the time I spent, because today I see a thriving user list and a more-or-less thriving development community. I tend to ignore mails that look like a waste of my time or energy, so I'm not very worried about people not getting the answers they want. If I want to have an answer, I always put indications that I read the RTFM in my pleas for help. I often see those indications missing on the questions I see pass by one the lilypond. list. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
