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GL_Terminator wrote: I wonder if that is what real life does to you.
Yes.
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. "
— Hunter S. Thompson
My comedy.
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I concur! Having children does not help either! 
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Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
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I have a 5month old child, I will concur whole heartedly.
So if your 25 now, that gives you between 5 and 10 years to get that home project finished. Once the kids arrive, wow, where did my time go... but I just don't mind at all.
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damn....
I've got 1 coming now, and i'm 25. I don't like the sound of this at all!
Guess I have to finish this thing before May
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It's fantastic, you'll be fine....
But get anything that actually takes up time, or requires you to have had a good nights sleep well and truly done before the little one arrives.
In fact, do whatever it takes so that you don't need any sleep in May, or June, and some of July! .... or make sure the baby is breast fed, then you can't help, and might as well stay in bed 
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This is pretty common, from what I've seen/heard...
I used to code all the time during college and before... Now that I do it every day at the office, I just don't want to anymore... I don't even have Visual Studio installed on my home desktop anymore, though I do have Eclipse on there (Which doesn't get much use, since I can't find the motivation to work on that Android app)...
When you have to do something 8 or 9 (or more) hours a day, it's just not fun anymore.
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I'm the odd man out then. I still code all the time for fun. Lately I've been writing tools that help me with the MMO game I'm playing (EVE). So in a way it does have that hook into the entertainment side of my life, which probably helps.
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Yes, though it took me until 40ish.
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ditto^2
- S
50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
Code, follow, or get out of the way.
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I haven't done any "fun" coding for a while, but that's changing as I'm finding ideas for stuff to work on that strikes my interest or that meets needs that I have. Finding those kind of things brings the interest back.
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I still code for fun. I'm currently working on something with Sacha - it's pretty cool.
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Never - well, there's certain projects that can be really frustrating, but that's more because of the processes (people and machine) that are involved and the "can't this be done better?" questions.
However, I never lose interest. There's always amazing and fun stuff to work on. For example, I'd really like to resurrect Apple's HyperCard[^] concept, I'm in the midst of writing an article on the concept of "relationship oriented programming" (not people, but entities), and this interesting topic, Anchor Modeling[^]
Marc
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Good!
Leave all the work for us oldies who have been coding for decades and still love it!
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Nothing to say.
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I fun for code! 
Seriously, depends on the mood. Most of the times I just don't feel like doing anything(code related).
Like, I'm sick and tired of all this stuff. But then again, sometimes I even lose nights to coding for fun.
Rarely, but it happens.
All the best,
Dan
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The last time I did any coding outside of education or employment was on a Commodore 64.
I wrote quite a few little programs on it, remember one about displaying different flags of the world.
Can't remember what the last thing I wrote was, but I do remember that when it was finished I called my mum in to have a look. She sat down, touched the computer and it turned off, never to come back on again.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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I still code for fun after more than 15 years in the industry. However, it's never been "endless hours", which is maybe the reason why I haven't lost interest.
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GL_Terminator wrote: I wonder if that is what real life does to you.
It comes and goes. After I write something in my spare time I usually need a month or 2 off from that before I can tackle another.
I think as you get older you just start to notice the trade offs more. So for example if I spend 200 hours writing some mobile app/game. My rewards for this are nerd pride and maybe a few hundred bucks in sales. Are pride and a few hundred bucks worth 200 hours of work? How much fun or new experiences could I have had instead with my 200 hours?
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As in my 'bio':
When I was a chemist I coded for fun.
Now I do for money what I used to do for pleasure - just like a hooker.
Actually, I've been given a lot of duties to take/process/otherwise-abuse photos, so much so that, of late, I've actually been looking forward to coding. Hope springs eternal . . . If not, try a single malt with a straw.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I have the same problem, after using a computer in the day for work purposes I don't want to do it again after work, although I do use computer based timewasters (forums and games). I have various coding projects and some writing (including some nascent CP articles) and I never have the motivation to actually do that any more.
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I still do programming for fun and there is a very simple reason:
I cannot develop the things I would like to in my job. They just don't pay me for all my interests.
Of course I have chosen a job which challenges me, I really like it. And I choose this job because wanted to create 3d worlds and make them visible.
But here I have to accept compromises with my colleagues, I cannot find out how to do things better, I just have to make them run.
I am developing a different way of programming - at home. This is very existing and keeps me busy for 10 years now. It's fun. And it's hard to find time for that. I also have a website about programming containing a wiki with tutorials and a bulletin board for a small community. So I stay in contact with younger developers who are inspiring me. They code for fun which also spreads to me. I am developing a content mangement system for that in C++ and also a search engine crawling my cms and also the web for me.
That's quite exiting.
I started to develop software at 1986. I once started to write a game. A graphical adventure like Maniac Manson. The music plays, the character moves accross several rooms. We were close to create a graphic adventure. That was the moment it becomes boring. It was no challenge anymore.
Do you still have a challenge?
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