[runawaybottle]

We also should not propagate the caricature of the developer. You know, the all I need is gallons of coffee and I’m off grokking code all day in a hoodie. I’m off to my Kubernetes meetup! Whoops, just dropped my giant math is fun textbook.

[yoz-y]

/me looks at a pile of empty coffee capsules, /me looks at the hoodie, /me looks at the (unread) giant math is fun book, I hide in shame.

I do agree though, especially in hiring I find it weird to expect people to have their hobby being the same as their job. I'm quite curions if there is another profession where this is the case. Photographers maybe?

[spacechild1]

> I'm quite curions if there is another profession where this is the case.

Any artist, really. The line between work and leisure are blurry at best.

[cagataygurturk]

Musicians https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/10/03/programmers-an...

[justanotherc]

Pilots to some extent (the senior airline pilots who can afford to fly privately), but that is often to get back to the joy and freedom of roaming the skies at will in light aircraft vs the demanding and rigid world of commercial flying, so arguably not the same thing.

[jedberg]

I'd say anyone who is a maker. Someone who creates things creatively.

There is a good chance your carpenter has a workshop at home. If you have the kind of mechanic who likes will modify your car, they probably do their own car too.

[runawaybottle]

Well if you’re the real deal, you’re the real deal :p I guess only celebrities/insta influencers have to keep up the image.

Casually hides Cracking the Coding Interview book

[yjftsjthsd-h]

> Casually hides Cracking the Coding Interview book

Ironically, I'm pretty sure that owning that book is part of the image :)

[thaumasiotes]

No, the image is that you own CLRS. Cracking the Coding Interview is to the programmer image as Cliffs Notes are to the Shakespeare nerd image.

[eindiran]

I feel like owning a print copy of CLRS just implies that you studied Computer Science at a university, not necessarily that you're some super gifted hacker. But then again, most people who own print copies of Shakespeare are probably not uber-Shakespeare nerds, but took some English Lit courses.