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Re:Side Projects: Learning experience vs. Distraction by toumhi on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @05:06PM (#5482087)
Reminds me of that time when my previous company tried to create such a policy ... I even wrote a stack overflow question at that time:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3009885/should-a-company-...

As I wrote at the time, quoting the head of development: "outside work activities create a conflict of interest. [...] [we don't want that] you use your spare time to work on your app, and once it takes off you quit your job".

I remember replying that in that case kickboxing also creates a conflict of interest.

The result: lots of developers started to leave that company.

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