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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE development as a spectator sport!
From:       Guillaume Laurent <glaurent () telegraph-road ! org>
Date:       2005-06-26 6:55:49
Message-ID: 200506260855.49601.glaurent () telegraph-road ! org
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On Sunday 26 June 2005 08:11, Nathan T. wrote:
>
> If he's smoking something to make him think that way, then I must be
> smoking it too because I find CS very fun. Writing programs is like
> solving puzzles,

And would you be interested in watching someone solving puzzles ?

> it's a good challenge and it's fun, but because it's 
> my hobby and not my job I don't have much time for it.

To you, yes (and then again, if it was your job rather than your hobby you'd 
probably be less enthusiastic about it :-) ). The point was, can it be 
interesting for others to watch ? I very much doubt that.

Coding can be fun (it's still fun for me, although not always), but that's 
something you'll have to discover by yourself, if you have the right set of 
mind (i.e. if you're a geek). Watching or reading reports about others doing 
it won't make anyone want to try. I've yet to see a manager wanting to fire 
up an IDE after reading an activity report from his subordinates.

Bottom line : CS is dull, unless you're a geek, in which case you won't need 
any "spectator sport" to get into it.

-- 
Guillaume.
http://www.telegraph-road.org
 
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