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I would agree with that iff the learning that you were doing was closely related to the skill-set that your company hired you for and/or one they could utilize.
by Wingman4l7 13y ago
I would agree with that iff the learning that you were doing was closely related to the skill-set that your company hired you for and/or one they could utilize. See my related comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6089570 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6089570
- chaostheory 13y agoI strongly disagree. Learning a functional language that is very different from your language at work still has a lot of value. It can help you with patterns and even when your own language evolves. For example, Java 8 will have lambdas. If you're already familiar with it from other "esoteric" languages, it'll be very easy to take advantage of it. I'm sure others can provide better examples than I can.