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Any competent developer I would like to hire would be spending time building stuff with their skills instead of playing games with it. No disrespect to the play
by galistoca 10y ago
Any competent developer I would like to hire would be spending time building stuff with their skills instead of playing games with it. No disrespect to the players, but just saying if you're good at something you should use your gift to produce something useful instead of using it to consume what someone else built.
- danielvf 10y agoHey now! :) Tinkering with things is a fantastic way to learn. And a desire to tinker for the sake of understanding is a really good tell for a smart problem solver. Every job I've had has been because I played around with some technology for fun, and then ran into people who had a need for it. Playing with code can also be relaxing. In my normal work, the code that I write needs to be reliable, maintainable, and performant. Buy playing stockfighter is a way to have fun without the burden of any that. I can do really stupid stuff, just for the joy of it. Heck, I hooked up a spam filter to one of the levels and won. Or built a minecraft stockfighter hologram visualizer.