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Re:Do middle-aged non-ninja developers belong? by redmand on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @02:06PM (#5481027)
A desire for entrepreneurship? Definitely. But I don't have any side projects or ideas that I feel would be unique enough or adopted well enough in an open market. They're great toys for me, but my girlfriend just doesn't understand them. :)

And a big NO to management. I love coding. I want to die while refactoring. Or die while coding, then come back from the grave to refactor later.

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Re:Do middle-aged non-ninja developers belong? by pc86 on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @02:12PM (#5481069)
I'm the same way in a lot of respects. I'd love to wake up every morning to tweak a product or SaaS business that I live off of but I haven't gotten that spark from anything yet.

What language(s) do you work with?

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Re:Do middle-aged non-ninja developers belong? by redmand on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @02:26PM (#5481183)
Work with or are competent at? :)

For the last 8 or so years, the jobs have been C#/.Net. Before that, Delphi. Before that, C and C++ (quite a while ago). There's also been a touch of Ruby, a couple days of PHP, and an odd smattering of x86 assembly.

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Re:Do middle-aged non-ninja developers belong? by pc86 on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @03:04PM (#5481424)
I've been doing PHP since I started programming in middle school but have been gradually shifting to .Net (VB at my employer). Never had any interest in Ruby for whatever reason.

Best of luck in your search.

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