Timeline for Entry level engineer question regarding memory management
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| Jul 10, 2012 at 20:22 | comment | added | user39581 | I understand the opinions noted in the above comments; I would like note that I asked during my lunch break. :). Again, thank you all for your input here and throughout the Stack Exchange site; it is invaluable! | |
| Jul 10, 2012 at 19:40 | comment | added | Marcin | So, you prefer to leave to chance that your employees will do it at home? Especially when using proprietary development tools, like VB? | |
| Jul 10, 2012 at 19:40 | comment | added | Christopher Berman | let us continue this discussion in chat | |
| Jul 10, 2012 at 19:38 | comment | added | Christopher Berman | I certainly wouldn't discourage my employees from learning, and pursuing an item of interest through a ten-minute exploration (say, the reading the length of a solid wikipedia article) is certainly permissible and good. Spending an hour-plus dipping into VB optimizations (the subject of the question) when those optimizations are entirely unnecessary, however, is not permissible. | |
| Jul 10, 2012 at 19:35 | comment | added | Marcin | Good for you. It doesn't really make it a universal rule, though. Plus, if you discourage your workers from learning at work, all you've done is discourage them from learning, and encouraged them to find another employer who actually pays for staff development. | |
| Jul 10, 2012 at 19:33 | comment | added | Christopher Berman | If I were an employer, I would not hire people who did not better themselves as programmers outside of company-time. | |
| Jul 10, 2012 at 19:11 | comment | added | Marcin | Weird. Some of us have a personal life, and as I say, the employer benefits primarily from the research. The key is to not actually spend all day on it. | |
| Jul 10, 2012 at 19:10 | comment | added | Christopher Berman | Subjects that don't directly contribute to your current task? You should pursue these things on your own time. If I sat down and researched every CompSci item that piqued my curiosity over the course of the day, I'd get nothing done. That's what my evenings are for. | |
| Jul 10, 2012 at 19:01 | comment | added | Marcin | On who else's dollar should it be? Your employer benefits from the increase in your skills rather more than you do. | |
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| Jul 10, 2012 at 17:19 | history | answered | Christopher Berman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |