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To me it's pretty clear that the 'Internet points' we collect on HN or elsewhere are fluf. You are probably not going to get a job for having karma. On the oth
by jackyinger 9y ago
To me it's pretty clear that the 'Internet points' we collect on HN or elsewhere are fluf. You are probably not going to get a job for having karma.
On the other hand tricky patches generally go into a git or some VCS, that you can point to and impress prospective employers with.
If there's any confusion regarding this it's the user's error.
- theparanoid 9y agoWhen applying for consulting gigs people have looked (sometimes closely) at my Open Source patches/commits. Recruiters never ever look at patches/commits. They might read the bottom of a resume's first page.
- z1mm32m4n 9y ago> If there's any confusion regarding this it's the user's error. And the article's point is that we should be designing systems that make it even harder for the users to make that error. It's the difference between - a poorly-designed service that rewards people for contributing little real value to the world, and - a well-designed service that rewards people proportional to the value they create While it's true that the error is the user's, we stand to benefit from ensuring that other users don't make those errors in the first place.
- ruleabidinguser 9y agoGo ahead, design your service that dictates how a user should structure their life. I hope you won't be surprised when you don't have any users.