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> Have you run into a lot of great software engineers that didn't spend at least that many hours working on their own projects? Despite the HN bubble, most dev
by scarface74 3y ago
> Have you run into a lot of great software engineers that didn't spend at least that many hours working on their own projects?
Despite the HN bubble, most developers go to work, do their jobs and go home and don’t think about “side projects”
- jrockway 3y agoYeah, but how do you get your first job? Doctors don't have a job when they go to 12 years of medical school. That's to get the job.
- scarface74 3y agoWell, I got my first for pay opportunity because a college about a hour and a half away from mine saw a HyperCard stack I wrote and posted on AOL - it was an improved Eliza clone. He wanted to integrate it into a HyperCard based Gopher server that was in 1994. Then that led to an internship in 1995 at another company and I got a job there in 1996. I haven’t written a single line of code “for fun” since then. The only reason I have any type of open source presence now is because my current job has a very straightforward open source process that allows us to get approved to put reusable artifacts from customer engagements on the corporate open source Github organization (https://github.com/aws-samples https://github.com/aws-samples) under an MIT license. That means I am free to fork it once it gets approved so it shows up on my own profile.