On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 04:42:32 -0700, feedthetroll wrote: > >> "Learning for personal pleasure" and "business server" can't be true >> both. > > Utter nonsense. Some people are fortunate enough to be paid to do > something that gives them pleasure. Many programmers and system > administrators are in that lucky position. I am sorry that you > (apparently) get no pleasure from learning new programming and sys admin > skills, but don't imagine that everyone is like that. >
There's still a difference between getting paid to do something you enjoy, and getting paid to learn the utter basics. I enjoy networking, and I'm paid to do that (well, part of my job involves networking); this week I learned something new that I can do by simply setting a few ARP entries and some fixed routes, which let us de-hack some sections of our code. That's great! I love doing it, and I learn something, and I get paid to do so. Awesome! But if you hire someone to set you up a LAN, and he's still learning the fundamentals of IP addressing and so on, then you'd be a bit concerned. The terms, as stated, are far too broad. Learning at the level Nikos currently is, though, is IMHO incompatible with being paid to do it. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
