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So you do no personal development on a desktop? Do you use your work's equipment? Are you using your phone? I have three desktops on the go all day. Three ke

by ipaddr 5y ago

So you do no personal development on a desktop? Do you use your work's equipment? Are you using your phone? I have three desktops on the go all day. Three keyboards in front of me and three mice. I run Windows 7, 10 and ubuntu and another ubuntu under windows 10. Trading that in for my mobile is very limiting.

scarface74 5y ago
I develop to trade labor for money. The last thing I want to do when I get off work is more computer work. If I’m just doing a hobby project proof of concept to learn a new for me technology, I would do that on my work computer. We have a very liberal open source process where we can open source a project under: https://github.com/aws-samples https://github.com/aws-samples That only requires going through a simple process. That also means I have unlimited admin access to multiple dev AWS accounts using our internal tool that we can’t name but almost everyone knows about. If/when I leave, I can just fork it and continue to work on it if no one else is interested in maintaining it. Otherwise, submit a pull request. Any outside work I would do would be considered “consulting” - the same thing I do on my $DayJob. That would clearly be a conflict of interest.
- ipaddr 5y ago
  I can imagine working at Amazon taking away your desire to do anything outside of work. Did you feel the same way before Amazon?
  - scarface74 5y ago
    I’ve felt the same way for 25 years. I haven’t programmed as a hobbyist since graduating from college in 1996. BTW, I would never want to be an SDE at Amazon. I don’t do on call. I work in consulting. We are told that we are “in charge of our own calendar”. Meaning that if we are putting in more than 40 hours regularly, we aren’t managing our projects correctly. On a day to day basis, my actual manager only has a high level idea of what I’m working on. We as consultants guide our project implementations.
GekkePrutser 5y ago
Yeah same here. I have big screens around me everywhere. Why poke at a tiny 6.5" even I have 24" 4K glory and support efficient keyboard input?

by ipaddr 5y ago

scarface74 5y ago

I develop to trade labor for money. The last thing I want to do when I get off work is more computer work. If I’m just doing a hobby project proof of concept to learn a new for me technology, I would do that on my work computer. We have a very liberal open source process where we can open source a project under: https://github.com/aws-samples https://github.com/aws-samples That only requires going through a simple process. That also means I have unlimited admin access to multiple dev AWS accounts using our internal tool that we can’t name but almost everyone knows about. If/when I leave, I can just fork it and continue to work on it if no one else is interested in maintaining it. Otherwise, submit a pull request. Any outside work I would do would be considered “consulting” - the same thing I do on my $DayJob. That would clearly be a conflict of interest.

ipaddr 5y ago
I can imagine working at Amazon taking away your desire to do anything outside of work. Did you feel the same way before Amazon?
- scarface74 5y ago
  I’ve felt the same way for 25 years. I haven’t programmed as a hobbyist since graduating from college in 1996. BTW, I would never want to be an SDE at Amazon. I don’t do on call. I work in consulting. We are told that we are “in charge of our own calendar”. Meaning that if we are putting in more than 40 hours regularly, we aren’t managing our projects correctly. On a day to day basis, my actual manager only has a high level idea of what I’m working on. We as consultants guide our project implementations.

GekkePrutser 5y ago

Yeah same here. I have big screens around me everywhere. Why poke at a tiny 6.5" even I have 24" 4K glory and support efficient keyboard input?