OK, I now understand what you're saying. That being said, I don't believe you - I don't think someone in your category (1) has all that much of an advantage ove

OK, I now understand what you're saying. That being said, I don't believe you - I don't think someone in your category (1) has all that much of an advantage over someone in my "your achievements are publicly known and not locked away in someone's proprietary code base" category. I think most of the "passion programmers" advantages are due to how public their achievements are, not due to the fact that they are putting in more than the 9-to-5. Further, most of the people I've met in this category don't have particularly interesting or programming intensive 9-to-5s, which is how they can have the appetite to program in the evenings. Back during the most intensive period of working on Hyperscan, when we were really doing tons of interesting stuff during the day, I had zero interest in going home and doing Even More coding on some other project. It would have been seriously reaching into the "You Are No Longer Productive" number of hours/week.