especially if your program has nothing to do with the company, then designing/writing it while at work is no different then sitting at work figuring out how to beat that last level in starcraft

Not true. If your job involves anything resembling programming (programmers, sysadmins, even helpdesk (unless it's at a pure read-from-the-script level)), tinkering on some code can improve your ability to do your job. Starcraft almost certainly won't.

All a programmer is, is a person who can reduce complex instructions into very, very simple commands

And that's not doing things differently and having a different approach than "normal" people?

In reply to Re: Re: Positive meditations (relaxation) or outright theft? by dsheroh
in thread Positive meditations (relaxation) or outright theft? by vladb

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