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I work for a bank and I have contributions to the python project and a multitude of projects on Github. Yes those things I did took a lot of time but I typical

I work for a bank and I have contributions to the python project and a multitude of projects on Github. Yes those things I did took a lot of time but I typically do it out of boredom . To be honest my GitHub projects are demos and I just like giving presentations . If you compare yourself or anyone on any given metric you will feel bad. What is even worse is when people tell you all the time about a metric that you should do but once you do it you find that it wasn’t necessary at all and it’s some kind of mental gatekeeping.

barrkel 6y ago
Cool story. I have a kid and all our work commits are to a private Atlassian Bitbucket repo, so the only commits from me on GitHub are my dotfiles, once in a blue moon. I've been coding since 1995 and my open source contributions tailed off around 2002 or so. Wasn't how I wanted to invest my spare time.
bena 6y ago
You're missing the point. The point isn't that the hypothetical banker can't have an active github profile, it's that there are reasons they might not. Take me for instance, I haven't really done anything significant in the public for over a decade now. The vast majority of my code has been for one private company or another. And that's the case because either my job has me working the hours or after putting in 8 to 10 hours of code in private, there's exercising, practicing guitar, socializing with friends and family, building Lego sets, reading, playing video games, and other activities that don't involve me writing more code. That's not to say I don't, it's just I don't have that much time to do it outside of work.
zwayhowder 6y ago
As noted I was using examples. I wasn't saying everyone who works for a bank can't commit code to GitHub, just that in the grand scheme of things it's more likely. I just spent the past 4 years getting an MBA, my github repos are all horribly out of date because I had more important things to do. It doesn't mean I'm any less passionate about the technology.

barrkel 6y ago

Cool story. I have a kid and all our work commits are to a private Atlassian Bitbucket repo, so the only commits from me on GitHub are my dotfiles, once in a blue moon. I've been coding since 1995 and my open source contributions tailed off around 2002 or so. Wasn't how I wanted to invest my spare time.

bena 6y ago

You're missing the point. The point isn't that the hypothetical banker can't have an active github profile, it's that there are reasons they might not. Take me for instance, I haven't really done anything significant in the public for over a decade now. The vast majority of my code has been for one private company or another. And that's the case because either my job has me working the hours or after putting in 8 to 10 hours of code in private, there's exercising, practicing guitar, socializing with friends and family, building Lego sets, reading, playing video games, and other activities that don't involve me writing more code. That's not to say I don't, it's just I don't have that much time to do it outside of work.

zwayhowder 6y ago

As noted I was using examples. I wasn't saying everyone who works for a bank can't commit code to GitHub, just that in the grand scheme of things it's more likely. I just spent the past 4 years getting an MBA, my github repos are all horribly out of date because I had more important things to do. It doesn't mean I'm any less passionate about the technology.