Ask YC: Should Fridays and Saturday nights matter to a young hacker?

Re:Ask YC: Should Fridays and Saturday nights matter to a yo... by trekker7 on Saturday November 17, 2007 @10:40PM (#81104)

You've got to balance that stuff out dude... if you really only enjoy hacking and don't like hanging out with friends, going to movies, eating out, partying, whatever, then cool. But if you're working long hours just to be competitive, then don't do it! Life is too short to treat it like some sort of war. Have fun while you're young.

Hacking can be a social activity too. Do you have any friends that are programmers that work on hobby programming? Maybe work alongside them.

But I really give props to you for dropping out of college; probably took a lot of balls. Where did you go to school?

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Re:Ask YC: Should Fridays and Saturday nights matter to a yo... by samson on Sunday November 18, 2007 @11:31AM (#81227)

I've always enjoyed hacking since I was 12, and when I'm doing it, it rarely feels like something I have to do. I do it because i want to.

I didn't study computer science in college, I choose to study Philosophy instead. Mainly because in highschool programming courses weren't challenging, and the questions I had my teachers couldn't answer.

Fortunately philosophy has been a pleasant surprise, I've learned alot of new things related and unrelated to hacking. But I knew there was no point in going on when I spent my time in class drawing out concepts and writing algorithms for my project instead of taking notes.

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