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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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