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I've done it for several year. I do it for the love of programming and because I can't find the same level of frustration doing anything else.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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Mike Hankey wrote: I can't find the same level of frustration doing anything else.
So, I guess you never took up golf... 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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After watching my son play golf for many years I decided I couldn't afford it.
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I would engineer software for myself for free, obviously. I would not work for others unless I got paid...unlesssssss, it was pro bono job for a good cause.
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Slacker007 wrote: I would engineer software for myself
But why? What would you need software for?
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Do you seriously not have any interests that you might apply your programming skills to?
Among the many things I've developed for myself over the years are:
A gas mileage tracking system.
A stereo photography image matcher-upper.
An MP3 player file randomizer/selector/updater.
A labyrinth designer.
A simple Code Management System.
Various games and puzzle solvers. I have even given away copies of my implementation of Cosmic Wimpout -- for free!
And, of course, various responses to CP's Weekly Coding Challenges.
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I do it on the side already for my own personal enjoyment already so in a way I guess I would continue.
However if my work was for another person to profit then I would expect a piece of that return.
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I've created a few simple websites for friends but that's it - gives me a chance to play with anything new.
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So its you me and V on one side and the rest of CP on the other.
I didnt realise THAT many of them were nerds. I thought there might be some engineers among them. 
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I am certainly not an engineer. You are the only engineer on CP. Most of the others have delusions of grandeur.
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I was in mech-aero engineering before switching to software, it pays more, is a better career, and you can travel with it, but I am no nerd. IN fact I still prefer mech-aero as a hobby, and always will. But the discipline of true engineering when carried over to software brings a big benefit IMO.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: the discipline of true engineering
Right, that's what most developers are lacking, but most software doesn't require it either -- certainly not the kind of stuff I work on. I would never claim to have it.
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Software is unusual, you are not dealing with some fact of nature (physics, such as mass, shear strength etc) but with what some nerd at a desk dreamed up in the 80s (the Windows OS in my case) so it doesnt require as much knowledge and yet the sheer complexity of software, its invisibility, its mutability, far exceeds that of ordinary engineering.
But the hard nosed pragmatic approach from ordinary engineering still works with software IMO.
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Yes, yet much software (Web apps in particular) benefit from an iterative/evolutionary approach like Agile.
Very few developers are working on software that must be absolutely correct the first time out the door.
It's sad that Operating Systems no longer fall into this category.
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As long as you don't start off with "Stairway to Heaven" she'll probably forgive you, eventually.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I've not really played enough LTDs. I am, primarily, an Ibanez man. How come you're only on number 7? I am trying to whittle mine down below 30.
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I would like to have 30, but the budget is not that extensive, nor is the storage capacity 
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It's a collection built up over nearly 40 years. In my time, I've bought some brilliant guitars and I've bought others that were, well, less brilliant (Brian May Custom, I'm looking at you here). I have guitars that cost 1000s and ones that cost a tenner.
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Is the Brian May Custom the factory version of the hand made ex-wardrobe that no one could understand didn't have the same sound?
veni bibi saltavi
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That's the puppy - but then again, that's the same one that May used on tour.
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Have fun with it! I "only" own 4 different guitars (Fender, Hohner,...).
I surely would have more, if I could only explain it to my better half. But it looks like you have the same problem 
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It is better to sleep in the huffy bed than seek permission. The way I look at it - Mrs Pete buys lots of shoes and handbags, then only uses them two or three times (at most) before going out and buying more. In the long run, my hobby is a lot cheaper.
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I tried that argument with Mrs Wife, but the cold sofa made me see the errors of my way 
veni bibi saltavi
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(Un)fortunately that's not the case when it comes to Mrs Leander (i.e. not lots of shoes and handbags, only a reasonable amount).
Besides, I'm about to restaurate my new hobby Kreidler Florett Mokick[^], which occupies me enough.
A new guitar can be afforded after that
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