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To answer your question, If I can get 4-6 hours of solid dev time in I'm a happy camper. "Also, 90% of webdev does not require that much creative hard-thinking

• Estragon 12y ago
  That sounds horrible. Why don't you have the source code?
• vemv 12y ago
  As a backend (Rails, in particular) dev, most tasks are really streamlined - I've done them 1000 times before pretty much the same way I would do now. There is room for unpredictability, debugging hours, etc but those are rare. I can see how frontend or higher-profile backend dev can be more unwieldy/demanding, though. I made the 90% remark because it is a somewhat common opinion that programmers are completely above the hours thing. Were programming a totally creative activity, I would agree, but it is not.