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   Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 10:34:02 JST Alex Gleason
   You know what I don't understand. People who build complex software AND have a life. When I'm building software I'm NOT doing anything else. I have to block out weeks at a time, to build software. I am incapable of socializing with people during this time. Even something small like going to the store is a major disruption. I plan my life around major blocks of software development time, and reluctantly carve out blocks here and there for seeing friends and family. Bigger trips are expensive in terms of software development time. But apparently some people are capable of being software developers and somehow having a life within the same day. For me it's either a software week or it's not.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 10:42:22 JST Alex Gleason

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     @wowaname Just keep riding the wave and you'll get an opportunity, be ready to take it.
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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 10:42:26 JST opal

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     @alex i cant write code or have a life right now, it blows
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     Martti (mar77i@gleasonator.com)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 10:45:06 JST Martti

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     @alex I'd love to put my life together this way again. But I know it'll come back when the kids are older. Also I can't really call the time I spend with them unproductive, though. They might just be the only project I've ever put together that's really going to hold, and they give me a reason to stick with them through difficulty, unlike software, which I tend to forget about and move on to "my next bigger thing"...
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