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RickZeeland wrote: professional photographer
Nice - one of my favorite hobbies (and I spent 6 months as a "pro" many years ago - fun)
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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Yes, I have fond memories of my time as a photographer too, why in godsname I decided to become a Software Developer is a mystery even to me, must have a screw loose somewhere 
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RickZeeland wrote: Besides privateering
Nice! I've never met a real life pirate!
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Harrrr 
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My kind of guy 
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When I get the time, I build ships in bottles - learned it from an old geezer in Homer Alaska many years ago.
(plus I play starcraft (and I cheat )
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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I love writing software, but in my spare time I do refrain from doing it. Mostly since almost all of my close friends are not in the IT biz, so I kinda focus on the other good things in life. Beer, alcohol in general, barbecues and bars. Used to shoot, but stopped because I lack time.
What probably eats most of my free time (and is also one of the biggest counterweights on the work-life balance scale) is being a volunteer firefighter. We're 145 people, and only 8 of us do it as their way of primary winning bread. We also provide the emergency & rescue services on the local lake, which is sometimes a big plus (e.g. getting to ride a boat for free on sunny days) or not so much a big plus (e.g. getting to ride a boat during winter storms). All in all, even though I don't get a single dime for most of the stuff I do (training and most of the calls are unpaid for) it has become a really important part of my life, and something which really helps me recharge my batteries. Odd, I know - Most people wouldn't call getting called to a house fire at 10 PM and trying to rescue what's left until 5 AM refreshing, but to me it is - Even though I'm glad that nobody got seriously injured on any call I got so far.
I only have a signature in order to let @DalekDave follow my posts.
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Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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Marco Bertschi wrote: being a volunteer firefighter
Always appreciate our first-responders .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Cooking, playing music (clarinet and piano, but not at the same time), playing games (lots of, card games, rpgs, mah'jong) and having fun with my friends.
I doubt I could make some money out of any of them, though.
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I saw some kid playing mah jong on his phone the other day, not the tile matching crap you see all the time but the 4 player style. I must remember to find it some time, I enjoy playing it with friends but that is mostly drinking rather than playing.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Guitar and damn right I would.
This space for rent
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Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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Fishing, and if I could I probably would.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Running like hell, biking, cooking pizza.
I suppose I won't swap any of them.
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CPallini wrote: Running like hell, biking, cooking pizza.
You sure it is not running like hell or biking towards a well cooked pizza?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I wouldn't mess with him. C comes from a long line of distance runners.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I have a fair number of hobbies but I have probably spent the most time on music and racing simulations. Both of them have presented professional opportunities for me and I actually pursued the music profession for a while. It quickly became distasteful and I now despise the music business entirely and it has almost ruined the hobby for me. According to some of my friends who are into racing sims and went pro at that, the same thing happened to them. Several of them have nothing what so ever to with racing sims any more. One guy works for an F1 team now in their aerodynamics department. A few others work for a successful game studio who made a couple of the recent Need For Speed games. According to them, racing sims are no longer a hobby for them and they have little to do with them outside of work.
My point is, making money from a hobby can result in a significant change in your attitude toward that hobby and usually not for the better.
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Rick York wrote: My point is, making money from a hobby can result in a significant change in your attitude toward that hobby and usually not for the better.
I totally agree with this. I often tell a story about someone who loves to bake opening a pie shop.
Suddenly he has to survive and pay for all the equipment and rent on the bake shop by selling enough pies.
Next, he decides he has to sell X slices of pie each day to even break even.
Next, he is marketing, pushing people to come eat his wonderful pies.
Finally, he hates everything to do with pies and baking.
Now, if you could make a few million $$ in the first week then you could settle down and enjoy making pies at your leisure again. 
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Motorcycle rides and badminton are two things I regularly do. Before our little one came, I used to play badminton daily at 5 AM. For motorcycle rides, at least one day ride every month and at least one 2-3 day trip in two months. Traveling is big part of our lives so wife and I do plenty of road trips too. I am off the grid during my travels which is a bliss.
After the little one came, no badminton as our sleep schedule was thrown away along with his first diaper. I don't vision myself doing bike rides either for next few months if not a year. However, family travels will continue. We will have to choose the locations wisely though. No more treks and off beat locations for near future.
R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: would you swap coding for your primary hobby if you could make money?
I don't think I am a good enough badminton player to take it up professionally. Plus the age (33) isn't helping either. For motorcycle trips, I absolutely hate the Youtube video things. So no for that too. I still don't have an action cam or radio thingy which allows to talk. I ride to enjoy. If had to talk to someone or listen to music, I don't want to ride. I would rather meet you at a brewery.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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music!
Playing guitar and just being busy with them.
My other hobby is Jiu-Jitsu.
I would leave coding for both. (actually I would leave coding for almost anything  )
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Playing guitar[^].
But I wouldn't swap anything for writing code. I do it at work and I do it to relax[^]. It's my whole life.
/ravi
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PLUGH! XYZZY! Dredging my memory for the first version I played. It was written in FORTRAN as I recall, ported from DEC-something to Interdata 32bit. Late 1970s? Played on a TTY so you could cheat by looking back to previous runs. One of my colleagues mapped the cave on about 6 sheets of 11x15 line printer paper. He had immense trouble with the "all alike" maze. 
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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We played on a TI Mini back around 1979 - after work every night some of us would stay back and play. Then I discovered how to send a message to another terminal and we tortured one of the guys by occasionally sending 'A small dwarf with bags of gold runs past you to the west' messages while he was playing 
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