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Re:Don’t Pursue Programming if You Aren’t Passionate About It by maxaf on Friday February 10, 2017 @09:18AM (#13615465)
Passionate engineers can be a total drag to work with and lead. Imagine having to fight through squalls of passion in a business setting. "Passionate" has become in my mind another bullshit word that people use without understanding its meaning or implications.
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Re:Don’t Pursue Programming if You Aren’t Passionate About It by nunez on Friday February 10, 2017 @11:39AM (#13616668)
In my experience, "passion" usually manifests itself as several hour-long discussions about trivia that have little to do with what's actually at stake.

Very frustrating.

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