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jit_hacker on July 16, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: How do you showcase work from previous job...

In fairness, there are a lot of great programmers who work on projects they really believe in and spend all of their available free time dedicated to them. Even if they're for the company/enterprise/startup they work for.

pjc50 on July 16, 2014 [–]

Are they by some chance mostly male, under 35 and without families?

TorKlingberg on July 16, 2014 | [–]

Yes, but so are most programmers that do open source work or side projects in their spare time.

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