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Re:I have no side code projects to show you by hinkley on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @10:45PM (#15555964)
People who have only recently completed their 10,000 hours don’t understand that there are diminishing returns, and that learning something else entirely may help you more than doubling down on your narrow skill set.

Some of the things you can learn outside of this field are what overtraining is (actually not that different from the AI concept), perspective on the learning and teaching process, the importance of preparation and good tools, patience with new ideas, and the dangers of trying to rush through the learning process.

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Re:I have no side code projects to show you by sobani on Thursday October 26, 2017 @04:06AM (#15557171)
Besides the fact that many consider the 10,000 hours a myth, please keep in mind that the theory is about 10,000 hours of practice.

I bet that even people who have spend 20 years on side projects haven't reached those 10K hours of practice yet.

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Re:I have no side code projects to show you by hinkley on Thursday October 26, 2017 @09:10AM (#15558454)
We aren’t talking about people moonlighting as developers. We’re talking about people in the industry working on software every waking hour.

Roughly 220 work days a year, 5 hours a day at work if you are full time, 6 if you dabble a bit outside of office hours, that’s around 5 years out of school, which isn’t too far off from my experiences prior to Malcolm Gladwell.

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Re:I have no side code projects to show you by sobani on Monday October 30, 2017 @08:31AM (#15584489)
Working != practice.

When I'm building some CRUD interface for my job, there's nothing I'm practicing with that. When I spend my entire day doing that, I've gained 0 relevant hours for Malcom's 10K.

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