If we don't include all of the side projects and we don't include all of the day gigs, it is very easy for our skewed sample to have many examples where the authors appear to do most of their work on their side projects.
Absolutely -- I think that's where I was trying to go, but not as eloquently. If you look at the thread, I define "side project" in, what I consider, an odd way. Basically something that is on GitHub, because that has become what so many mean by side project.
In a roundabout way I was trying to say that people learn and grow in ways that are less visible. And while others may question your programming skills as a result -- you shouldn't.
Absolutely -- I think that's where I was trying to go, but not as eloquently. If you look at the thread, I define "side project" in, what I consider, an odd way. Basically something that is on GitHub, because that has become what so many mean by side project.
In a roundabout way I was trying to say that people learn and grow in ways that are less visible. And while others may question your programming skills as a result -- you shouldn't.