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People care a ton about their streaks and I have noted that before. It encourages people to not have weekends.
by the_mitsuhiko 11y ago
People care a ton about their streaks and I have noted that before. It encourages people to not have weekends.
- donatj 11y agoAs someone who used to care about streaks, it only takes one small commit and it can be a small reword of a readme ;)
- arien 11y agoOr a little cronjob that commits harmless changes later in the week? :P I don't care about the contribution streak, but do have friends who comment on theirs on Twitter now and then. I suppose it's just another thing to be proud of...
- donatj 11y agoThere actually are a handful of tools that let you cheat including one that lets you write text onto the chart.
- kedean 11y agoAnd then what's the point? You aren't proving anything to the world, and they can trivially see that you didn't do any real work. It's like saying "I'm going to write a part of my novel every day from now on", then every day you type one letter. It's very clearly gaming the system, and for absolutely no gain. You gained no skills, you didn't show yourself to be of value, you don't even get an imaginary reward. The intrinsic reward of tracking systems is lost because deep down you know you didn't do anything.
- arien 11y agoExactly, I do agree with what you said. But, this is true whether you commit a few irrelevant lines manually or automatically. So if you're going to do it just for the sake of showing off, at least make it efficient, no? :P
- vdnkh 11y agoI used to hold a mental backlog of easy commits to keep my streaks going when I was too busy to do real work
- newjersey 11y agoI just gave up and decided to make myself a rockstar with a couple of lines in the command line using /avinassh/rockstar. :) the way I see it, it validates that I am capable of following simple directions and running a python script :3 that's got to be a valuable asset in an employee, right?
- sotojuan 11y agoWhat do you mean it encourages people to not have weekends? Spending 20 mins fixing a small bug or improving docs in your for-fun project isn't giving up your weekend.
- emodendroket 11y agoThe "weekend" people mean here is a period of time when you do not do work at all
- cyphar 11y agoIs it uncommon to do some free software work in your spare time? I usually have a bunch of things I want to fix and spend an hour or two during the weekend when I would normally be just watching YouTube.
- emodendroket 11y ago"Free time" is when you do it, sure. The point is that you are not a machine and probably should not be working on code every single day.
- the_mitsuhiko 11y ago> Is it uncommon to do some free software work in your spare time? No. But life for many people consists of more things than just software development.
- sotojuan 11y agoYeah but... how does GitHub streak encourage people who don't want to do open source/for fun projects to do it? Seems like it only encourages people who want to do programming outside of work. We've already concluded that no one cares about your streak except yourself.
- emodendroket 11y ago
- mryan 11y agoI feel that week-based streaks could be a good compromise here. You still have the ability to quickly gauge how active someone is on GH, while allowing people who care about such things to keep a streak running without sacrificing weekend time.
- leshow 11y agoso care less about it. it's a fucking graph