[enraged_camel]

>>Many of the very best engineers are effectively prohibited from having Github projects.

Many, sure. But the OP's comment was "Of the 10 or so water walkers I've worked with, 0 have github accounts."

Surely people understand how asinine it is to believe that a sample size of 10 of OP's "water walkers" is a representative sample?

[chasote]

This comes off a little aggressive to me. People should be able to provide opinions and anecdotes on HN without the constant "citation needed" for everything. We all know everything isn't fully backed by 4 studies that will be presented here and now. Just say you disagree and offer why. It will probably be an anecdote too.

[enraged_camel]

On the other hand, if everyone used "anecdata" to support their arguments, we would never get anywhere.

If you want to make qualitative arguments, make qualitative arguments. What I absolutely can't stand is lame attempts to lend weight in such arguments using completely unverifiable and most likely non-representative numbers.

[softawre]

But the guy was just giving his opinion...

[plinkplonk]

fwiw I know 6 'water walkers' and none of them have github accounts.

Not saying this is universally true. Just another anecdotal sample.