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If I wash your car, will you hack open-source for me?

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I only stack firewood couple times a year, and it's a refreshing change of pace from sitting next to a computer.. =) ... One item on your list is on a completely different category than the rest - "repair your house". Those things are generally in the scale of 10kEur/a pop in Finland


sol- I also find stacking a refreshing change from coding n the summer, but the other way around in January :)

Good point about the scale - my contractor's hourly rate would also hire a programmer, even if not a super-experienced one.

Your comment reminds me of Pirsig's point in Zen that a five-cent screw is worth $5000 as soon as it strips out and prevents you from repairing a $5000 motorcycle. My days are so packed I look at any hour as being worth my hourly charge rate at work, even if the task being done is nowhere near that on the open market.
added on the 2015-03-09 12:42:00 by cxw cxw
No - similar reasons to smash. If I'm doing highly skilled work, best case I'm trading an hour of chores for an hour of code - but this is ignoring the years I've spent learning and practicing those skills. This is why coding tends to have higher monetary value than car washing, a shitload more work is involved even if both tasks take 1 hour :) So I definitely wouldn't trade 1 hour of code for 1 hour of chores.

With that in mind, it takes a lot of car washing to pay for a new feature in some app. Which doesn't seem exactly fair to the person doing the car washing - asking somebody to wash my car every week and cut my lawn every other week for a year in return for a few hours work would make me feel pretty shitty about the deal.

More realistic solution: I code for money, and pay people to wash the car / mow the lawn (or just do it myself since it's exercise and fresh air), and work on open source stuff if I feel it's worthwhile.
added on the 2015-03-09 12:58:30 by psonice psonice

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