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On 2/18/11, Casey Ransberger <casey.obrie...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been thinking a lot about why I like to code, and how that relates to > the fact that I will program for money. The programming for money part isn't > nearly as satisfying to me for some reason as some of the stuff I've been > doing for free. > > I did the groundwork for a themes engine which went into Cuis 3.0. That was > ultra-fulfilling, because I liked the feel of Cuis a lot better than that of > mainline Squeak (the keyboard navigation is a lot better, there's a lot less > "stuff" everywhere in the UI layer, etc) but I absolutely had to do > *something* about the look, as it seemed trapped in the 80's everywhere > except for the lovely antialiased fonts. So it was a bit like the nice > feeling you get after redoing a deck and inviting some people to hang out on > it. > > It got me thinking about an interview I saw on the tubes that Alan did on > collective cognition, where he mentioned a list of human motivators that > anthropologists had identified. Does anyone know where a list like that > might be found? Maybe in a book or a research paper with a title like > _________? > > I decided it would be a fun experiment to ask the people on this list if > they might share some of their own motives for making and studying software. > > What makes your inner programmer tick? > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
