[trose]

> There are millions of programmers around the world who'll never write any code outside work, and they vastly outnumber the rest of us.

You mean the programmers with healthy work-life balance that have better things to do than waste their free time staring at a text editor? The implication that these "other programmers" are inferior in some way and require IFTTT to integrate services is quite offensive to me.

[lobotryas]

"Inferior" is a strong word, but coders who are not given time at work to improve their skills (this is usually the case) and who never code/read about coding outside of work stagnate. I've interviewed many people like this - decades of experience, impressive sounding resume - who couldn't do fizzBuzz.

I would prefer to hire someone who has work/life balance and codes for fun on their own time over someone who's strictly a 9-5 developer.

[increment_i]

I'm guessing you're exaggerating here but I'm curious - how could someone with decades of experience not do FizzBuzz? I can't wrap my head around it.

[wyager]

> waste their free time staring at their text editor

Is this how you see programming?

Something tells me you wouldn't be a very good programmer.

"Why would a sculptor waste their free time hammering rocks?"

[MarkSweep]

Programming is really fun and cool. But there are other fun and cool things that are not programming. I'm sure sculptors also take brakes from hammering rocks.