Comment by 000ooo000
7 hours ago
This false dichotomy comes up from time to time, that you either like dicking around with code in your basement or you like being a big boy with your business pants on delivering the world's 8000th online PDF tools site. It's tired. Please let it die.
"There are two kinds of programmers: those who love making programs, and those who love making money. I'm in the latter group."
Pretty much. But I like making money THIS way. Other ways would be fine, but I enjoy this immensely.
It's not that extreme.
There are people who would code whether it was their career or not, I'm not one of those people. I fell into software development in order to make money, if the money stopped then I would stop. I love building and selling products, if I can't do that then I have no interest in programming. I'm interested in machines, CPU's, etc. I'm interested in products, liaising with customers, delivering solutions, improving things for users, etc. You think there is no distinction there? Again, there are people who code for fun, I'm simply not one of them...
why are you on a hacker forum then?
maybe "MBA news" would be better suited?
There is lots of useful information here. I enjoy a lot of the discussions. Why else?