When you contact a user group, you're biasing your sample, we're people who care enough about their craft to give up "real world" free time to attend meetings to get better at what we do.
Anecdotally - I happen to be the "can't f***ng help myself" kind of serial open source committer, maintainer, language junkie, side project maniac, who's basically burned himself out to a gray haired shell of a human being by 27yr old. That all said, there's plenty of people on the list who generally just "do their job" and study up when they're looking for an interview or a promotion, people who drop into real world user group meetings once or twice a year. Regarding StackOverflow, it's a bad example, people with massive reputations have learned to game the system (answer unanswered questions in < 30s, post one sentence, spend 10 minutes researching an answer and "edit" your answer a few minutes later for maximum karma impact) But, some of us care. (See the "how to game stackoverflow rep" question on stackoverflow: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/17250 ) My Projects: - https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano - http://lee.hambley.name/ - https://github.com/leehambley And my "typical" stack overflow rep: http://stackoverflow.com/users/119669/lee-hambley Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 11 June 2013 21:42, Josh Fox <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > For an article I'm writing (for Brazen Careerist/Business Insider), I'd > like to ask: > > Do you do the ninja thing -- pardon the expression* ☺* ? > > How common is it really to: > - commit open-source code > - rack up StackOverflow karma > - continually learn new technologies > ... or do people just "do their jobs"? > > I'm guessing that a small proportion of active bloggers gives us an > exaggerated sense of these things. > > I put together a quick three-question > poll<http://blog.fiveyearitch.com/p/for-article-for-brazen.html>. > I made it to be fun to answer, and when you do it, you can see where you > stand. > > Regards, > > Josh > > Writer: Business > Insider<http://blog.fiveyearitch.com/p/three-articles-fiveyearitch-business.html> > /Brazen Careerist <http://blog.brazencareerist.com/author/joshfox/> > Founder, FiveYearItch.com <http://fiveyearitch.com/> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NWRUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
