Ask HN: Top rules as a good-developer to stay on top of your game

Re:Ask HN: Top rules as a good-developer to stay on top of y... by NetStrikeForce on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @05:54PM (#12552610)

I'm hoping you're being sarcastic, because in my little world that has never been true.

My observations say the correlation is pretty much the other way around: You work more hours because you can't get the stuff done during your allotted time. You're not learning new stuff, you're doing the same you've been doing the previous 8 hours of that: Struggle.

Of course there is brilliant people that just enjoy their work and stay longer every day; but staying longer is not the reason why they're brilliant. Being brilliant, specially on a trade that has a strong creative component, it's not something you can always train. Or at least not by repeating the same tasks over and over.

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Re:Ask HN: Top rules as a good-developer to stay on top of y... by corobo on Thursday September 22, 2016 @07:22AM (#12556013)

I think is this more "working extra hours at something" where something is "generic coding" rather than "a specific task I'm working on at work"

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Re:Ask HN: Top rules as a good-developer to stay on top of y... by smcg on Thursday September 22, 2016 @11:04AM (#12557281)

I think you misinterpreted my statement. My point was that working on side projects in your own time is the equivalent of working free overtime.

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Re:Ask HN: Top rules as a good-developer to stay on top of y... by NetStrikeForce on Thursday September 22, 2016 @11:45AM (#12557657)

Thank you both for the clarifications!

I see your point and I agree that side projects could help increasing your skills and/or knowledge. However, I'm not sure they're an effective way of doing that or if we [tend to use mostly the skills we have / tend to learn skills that are so different than our daily jobs that can't be applied or aren't useful for professional development]

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