> the idea that there is anyone engaged in "intellectual wanking" instead of "shipping product" is fallacious
The idea that you could know what everyone is not doing at all times is fallacious.
The time I'm talking about (and I thought has been implied in this thread) is the time where you sit in a meeting room/coffee shop/founder's house, during work hours, arguing about why X is a better stack than Y and why project Foo should use it instead of your "default" stack (not necessarily haskell v. php; X vs Y).
And again, I am saying that time is virtually non-existent. It is a red herring, used to try to pretend that "those weird people who actually learn stuff" aren't getting anything done. People are not talking about haskell and clojure instead of working. That is the entire point.
The idea that you could know what everyone is not doing at all times is fallacious.
The time I'm talking about (and I thought has been implied in this thread) is the time where you sit in a meeting room/coffee shop/founder's house, during work hours, arguing about why X is a better stack than Y and why project Foo should use it instead of your "default" stack (not necessarily haskell v. php; X vs Y).