Back when I was a TA, I found that a few people had a very curious misconception. In C++, they thought, if you never deleted an object, that object would never ever get freed until you restarted your computer. Basically, that a memory leak is memory that is lost and gone forever (for all intents and purposes).
Almost every person I work with has some type of programming project they work on at home. Michael (last I checked) is writing a synthesizer to go along with the midi controller keyboard he now owns, Matthew is writing an application so that he can update his music library’s metadata more easily, and other people have other tiny projects that they work on when the go home at night.
Me? I watch southpark until I fall asleep.
Some days, I wonder if something is wrong with me. Like I’m a bad geek for not programming when I go home. Hell, my own brother puts most of us to shame, having started what (I think) is the most popular linux PVR project in existence, MythTV.
So what’s wrong with me?
