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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
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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 ----- "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 ----- "The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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