People don't work as much as they say

Re:People don't work as much as they say by ChrisMarshallNY on Saturday January 29, 2022 @11:50AM (#30127836)

It was that (my employers had very good lawyers -especially wrt IP), but also, I felt a great deal of Responsibility towards my company. I know that my attitude is often derided in this crowd, but it was what it was. I did a great deal of work on the side. The job wasn't super-demanding, and I often spent time at my "day job," thinking about the side work; though not actually tapping on a keyboard. Technically, that was a Bozo no-no, but no one got hurt. In fact, a great many people, all over the world, benefitted from it.

I was careful to keep my side work to stuff that did not interfere, or compete, with my corporate employer, so there was never a problem.

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Re:People don't work as much as they say by austincheney on Saturday January 29, 2022 @12:08PM (#30128014)

My primary motivation now for personal projects is a silent anti-Dunning/Kruger.

As a JavaScript developer everybody wants to tell me how it’s done, what the right way is, and so forth. It’s not worth arguing over because the most incompetent developers tend to be the most vocal ones.

I have been writing JavaScript full time for almost 15 years and most corporate JavaScript I see is complete garbage. How do you know what excellent code is? Numbers. Code size, execution time, maintenance time, defect resolution time, test automation capabilities, new feature delivery time, and so forth. For example if your app takes 4 seconds to load and mine takes 50ms I will just assume I am less wrong, but you can’t advocate for that because will cry about code style and frameworks and other bullshit. So silently I write my personal project.

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