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> There are millions of programmers around the world who'll never write any code outside work, and they vastly outnumber the rest of us.

You mean the programmers with healthy work-life balance that have better things to do than waste their free time staring at a text editor? The implication that these "other programmers" are inferior in some way and require IFTTT to integrate services is quite offensive to me.

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"Inferior" is a strong word, but coders who are not given time at work to improve their skills (this is usually the case) and who never code/read about coding outside of work stagnate. I've interviewed many people like this - decades of experience, impressive sounding resume - who couldn't do fizzBuzz.

I would prefer to hire someone who has work/life balance and codes for fun on their own time over someone who's strictly a 9-5 developer.

I'm guessing you're exaggerating here but I'm curious - how could someone with decades of experience not do FizzBuzz? I can't wrap my head around it.

> waste their free time staring at their text editor

Is this how you see programming?

Something tells me you wouldn't be a very good programmer.

"Why would a sculptor waste their free time hammering rocks?"

Programming is really fun and cool. But there are other fun and cool things that are not programming. I'm sure sculptors also take brakes from hammering rocks.

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