I guess he's not hiring a whole lot of people with families then.
When I was 20 I had a LOT of free time in my hands. I spent some of it doing programming. I'm no longer 20, and I have two kids who require near constant attention from my wife and I and I'll be damned if I spend any of my scarce free time doing programming. I have far better ways to spend my time these days. Mainly sleeping.
Agree. When I was younger I built this monster ESX server for all my programming whims. Now, the server is still there, but it's primary job is a NAS for my kids' DVD collection. I sit in front of it maybe once a week. Most of my hobby programming is now done at work. Friday afternoons are set aside to experimental stuff that may or may not be related to work.
When I was 20 I had a LOT of free time in my hands. I spent some of it doing programming. I'm no longer 20, and I have two kids who require near constant attention from my wife and I and I'll be damned if I spend any of my scarce free time doing programming. I have far better ways to spend my time these days. Mainly sleeping.