At least for me "programming" is never 100% of my day to day work.
There always research tasks and proof of concepts that allows you to learn and try out new things.
Ask HN: If you only do programming at work, how do you manage your career?
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#22I work on side projects if it's something that interests me. Otherwise, I try not to make programming my life. I have other interests in politics, film, etc. that I would also prefer to pursue.
Re: Ask HN: If you only do programming at work, how do you manage your career?
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
My first professional programming job was in 1996. I was writing C for DEC VAX and Stratus VOS mainframes and reading about undefined and implementation defined behavior on Usenet in comp.lang.c. My second job three years later was writing C and C++ for Windows computers along with MFC and some standard cross platform C++ using the STL. Recently, there was a blog post submitted on HN with “trick” questions in C where…
I can’t believe how cloud has been so popular and every company is pushing towards cloud and I totally agree with you cloud is basically someone else computer but people make it seem like its something big You know what i mean
Half the reason that the cloud is a big deal to developers is that you can avoid administering servers.
The other half is that you can avoid server administrators.