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I always refuse to have a laptop as that blurrs the work/family/life balance too far into their direction.
I even don't hand over my personal mobile number to work (I have a 2 sim phone for work/private).
All my side projects are done using my own hardware and "community" software dev tooling 
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richp669 wrote: I was really peaved that someone would ask, and got a bit defensive (like us devs do).
Or.... just say, "No thanks, I'm not interested."
I say there are bigger problems to get upset about. Like Win10. It's popular to hate it right now so spend your time and energy doing that. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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So far I have had no problems with Win10 (other than work won't let me have it so I have to do the mobile side projects at home)...
Yes I am open to side projects, but not ones that the corporate will grab off me and use as their own!! 
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richp669 wrote: There is no other industry where the employees do "homework" or their work for pleasure
Porn star?
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richp669 wrote: There is no other industry where the employees do "homework" or their work for pleasure, so why is this encouraged in software?
You could start something there,
I would start by organizing something for doctors: line up non-essential operations (ingrown toenails, varicose veins, hips/knees ...), a "slashathon" - doctors get to brag their skills and speed, patients who normally wait years treated sooner.
Seriously though bosses should realise for some (if not most) people programming is a job, not every mechanic spends their weekend building super dream cars, not every builder adds bay windows to their own home, not every chef spends their days off creating new recipes - sure some do, most don't. (I know damn good mechanics that drive the lousiest cars, master builders that live in leaky drafty houses...)
As to hackathons, that's junior programmer sh*t. Tell the boss you are busy weekends: kids sports, helping the parents, church, hiking, bomb building...
Sin tack ear lol
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Lopatir wrote: bomb building
Too crude.
"Sorry boss, can't come. I have one of the few slots at the shooting range to train with my AR-50."
Put one round on his desk.
"Ok, boss, why don't you let it go through your head for a while?"
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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richp669 wrote: There is no other industry where the employees do "homework"
Priests?
(Although they might have to attend the odd Heckathon)
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You seem quite miffed. I have been at several Hackathons at Ericsson, by no standards a small company. The purpose of those were never to produce direct financial value. It was to have fun, and maybe (with a bit of luck) learn something new. It did not have to be directly applicable knowledge in my regular job.
I did ask a colleague or two why they did not take part. I did that as one cool developer talking to another cool developer, and I was cool with whatever they told me.
Of course, if I had been asked by a manager [or "manager"] why I had skipped a hackathon that would've made me miffed too! But in that place it was all relaxed and pleasant.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Some of us also like to be able to sleep (or sleep comfortably and wash) and to eat decent food rather than poor quality pizza and drink energy drinks.
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richp669 wrote: Are there any other industries that asks this of employees??
Yes there is. Like the hack-a-thon it is purely voluntary, it is called the global game jam, there are also local events as well. At these events you have 48 hours to create something playable that follows a particular theme or themes. At every game jam your idea is your own. it may be purchased by a larger company for further development, but you get credits. There are a number of hack-a-thons that work under the same premise. If the company you are working for lays claim to everything that an employee makes at a hack-a-thon then they are doing it wrong. Such a practice cripples creativity and fosters unwillingness to participate.
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Yes but that's still software development... my point still stands.
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richp669 wrote: Yes but that's still software development... my point still stands.
I'm afraid it doesn't. The same can be said for any kind of engineer, software or otherwise. They are called pet projects. The only difference here is that one is formal and may involve a group, the other is informal and still may involve a group. It comes down purely to how it is run. The people whom I know that organise and run hack-a-thons, for software or hardware, do not claim ownership or anything that is created at said event. If your place of employment is trying to do that then they are in the wrong, and their products will suffer for it because there is not enough creative freedom. The game jam was simply an example of good practice.
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Pizza, beer, code .. in that order.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Like it or not, software development is not regulated by local laws. The reason is that it is a global market; we work long hours because it's the nature of the work that it takes a lot of time to complete a project, and there are always people somewhere willing to work those hours. Also, the barrier to entry is somewhat low compared to other high-paying jobs, and determining the actual skill level of a coder is difficult. This is in contrast to a chef, for example: the product is produced in a relatively short duration, is deliverable only within close proximity, and the skill of the chef can be determined fairly easily even by people with no training. In my opinion, the irony is that unions still exist to protect professionals like teachers, plumbers or electricians who cannot be outsourced, and yet would be ineffective for industries that are globalized like software development is.
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I just encountered the following error when running some script I just wrote: "expecting anything but ''\n''; got it anyway @ line 36, column 201."
So ANYTHING would have sufficed, except this one character that was actually there.
Anything is A LOT, like near infinity, only limited by the computer's memory, so does that mean the chances of this error occurring are infinitely small? 
Do I get a medal for this? 
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Yes, you asked just at the right time: Karnevalsorden – Wikipedia[^] Sorry, no translation because I have no idea what to look for in Mordor's Wiki.
Found it: It's called carnaval orden in Mordor.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
modified 14-Feb-17 8:56am.
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German IS the dark language of Mordor
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No. That's still JavaScript.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Boy meeting girl, 1 in 20,000
No wonder I'm still single... I don't even know half as much people and about half of those are male!
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Sander Rossel wrote: line 36, column 201.
column 201!!! like our source short and fat do we?
Sin tack ear lol
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That's the nature of the script, It starts at column 18 due to indenting, and then it's just a single command line function with a couple of long paths.
Not something to worry about, really 
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Wide screen monitors, dontchaknow?
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Sander Rossel wrote: Do I get a medal for this?
Like this?[^]
Oops! Sorry, I misspelled medal. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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You misspelled it as "hammer"?
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