I've seen really good programmers(at ThoughtWorks for example) who didn't code at home at all. If you have an interesting job that leads you to code eight hours a day (typically the case at TW, if you find enterprise sw, agile, XP etc interesting), I can understand why you wouldn't want to code at home. If you are coding a solid eight hours a day, you are probbaly exhausted when you get home and don't want to see more code on the weekends. Playing with your kids beats coding any day.
That said, would I be inclined a bit more toward someone who had say Open Source contributions? Of course, it would be foolish not to.
I guess most of the debate is centred around the binary nature of the decision - will hire/ won't hire. Move to a more flexible non-binary judgment and it looks more reasonable.
Personally, I am open to hire both kinds of devs, but I'd prefer someone who had a side project / Open source cred etc.
That said, would I be inclined a bit more toward someone who had say Open Source contributions? Of course, it would be foolish not to.
I guess most of the debate is centred around the binary nature of the decision - will hire/ won't hire. Move to a more flexible non-binary judgment and it looks more reasonable.
Personally, I am open to hire both kinds of devs, but I'd prefer someone who had a side project / Open source cred etc.