One-year GitHub streak

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Does a very long streak is really good thing? I don't think I would like to collaborate with somebody who never spend all-day/weekend with family, partner, travelling or something else that don't require using computer.

Good point, though isn't it extreme to say you wouldn't want to work with somebody based on this information?

This has been brought up in a lot of the other GitHub streak threads such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7309310 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6701384. See more links from my original post.

I included the following paragraph to try to address this question. I don't have much to add to it. The few minutes away from sometimes week-long vacations is negligible and worth the motivation to me.

> I favor counting small commits as part of streak to better support external workloads and my personal life. I have traveled to over 10 cities over the past year with friends and family and am always able to find small commits to improve my projects in less than 5 minutes.

Don't take it personal, sorry if that sound rude - I didn't meant with that sentiment, maybe I could say differently.

One of my top priorities is health balance between work and personal life and one year streak doesn't indicate that. If you're able to manage both so well, I'm impressed, but it's still hard for me to imagine a year without any day dedicated only to my parents or girlfriend.

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