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Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes

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On 21/12/13 18:52, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
> On 12/21/2013 07:54 AM, lipska the kat wrote:
>> On 21/12/13 02:28, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>>> On 12/17/2013 03:09 PM, Wanja Gayk wrote:
>>>> In article <g4nru.546685$nC5.145367@fx06.iad>, Arved Sandstrom
>>>> (asandstrom2@eastlink.ca) says...
>>>>
>>>>> No aspersion on the M-F 9-5 programmers, Arne. But by definition M-F
>>>>> 9-5
>>>>> programmers have made a decision - not something I will heavily
>>>>> criticize - to confine their work to work hours, and keep their free
>>>>> time for family and leisure. As such they don't spend nearly as much
>>>>> time on off-hours professional education (if any), and we all know
>>>>> that
>>>>> work hours don't lend themselves to professional education either.
>>>>
>>>> To put it bluntly, this is nonsense. You can't generalize like that.
>>>
>>> Sure I can generalize like that. When I refer to a programmer as a M-F
>>> 9-5 programmer, it's not a slur, it's a straightforward definition of a
>>> programmer who only practices his trade M-F 9-5.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Who works 9-5?

<snip>

>> 9-5 developers?
>> No such thing.
>>
>>
> Then you've certainly not ever been in a union, for starters. :-)
>
> And you've evidently never worked in a private sector company (like IBM
> or Oracle or Microsoft, for example, or well-established local software
> consultancies with lucrative long-term contracts) where usually the only
> reason you work outside hours is because you're self-motivated, not
> because anyone required you to do so.

I did work for a large company once. Company car, company mobile, 
company laptop ... multiple layers of management, bored stiff.

Start-ups was my thing. Design, prototype, implement, launch, get bored, 
move on.

How can you be a developer without being self-motivated?



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Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-12-04 20:07 +0100
  Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2013-12-04 22:27 +0200
    Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes Patrick Roemer <sangamon@netcologne.de> - 2013-12-05 00:38 +0100
    Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2013-12-04 23:45 +0000
  Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-12-06 13:28 -0800
    Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-14 16:46 -0500
  Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-12-14 03:13 -0400
    Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-12-14 12:03 +0000
      Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-14 17:02 -0500
        Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-12-15 14:33 -0400
    Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-14 17:00 -0500
      Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-12-15 15:05 -0400
        Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2013-12-17 20:09 +0100
          Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-12-20 22:28 -0400
            Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes lipska the kat <"lipskathekat at yahoo dot co dot uk"> - 2013-12-21 11:54 +0000
              Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-12-21 18:27 +0100
                Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes lipska the kat <"lipskathekat at yahoo dot co dot uk"> - 2013-12-21 18:23 +0000
                Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes Tim Slattery <tim@risingdove.com> - 2013-12-21 14:56 -0500
                Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes lipska the kat <"lipskathekat at yahoo dot co dot uk"> - 2013-12-21 20:10 +0000
                Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes lipska the kat <"lipskathekat at yahoo dot co dot uk"> - 2013-12-21 21:18 +0000
              Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-12-21 14:52 -0400
                Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes lipska the kat <"lipskathekat at yahoo dot co dot uk"> - 2013-12-21 19:35 +0000
                Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-12-21 19:34 -0400
                Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes leif.roar@invalid.com (Leif Roar Moldskred) - 2013-12-22 05:02 -0600
                Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes lipska the kat <"lipskathekat at yahoo dot co dot uk"> - 2013-12-22 11:12 +0000
                Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2013-12-22 21:24 +0100

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