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> How do you know? It could be exactly what I need for some esoteric reason! No true scotsman wants to read that garbage. > Within the past year, I've found s
by gridlockd 7y ago
> How do you know? It could be exactly what I need for some esoteric reason!
No true scotsman wants to read that garbage.
> Within the past year, I've found several useful projects on Github that their authors who appeared to consider them worthless.
If the authors truly believed it was worthless, they wouldn't have expended the energy to publish it.
But that's not the point anyway. If you drown out your good work with all the crap you may have written over the years, your overall portfolio becomes weaker. In the arts, pretty much everyone knows this. In programming, apparently only the people that are hiring know this.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoTake a look at the example I edited in above (it looks like our posts crossed). I really do think that app's author considered it fairly worthless, it barely has a readme and it was explicitly given a WTFPL license. I would have thought my barely-tweaked fork was worthless to, and almost didn't share it, but I'm glad I did.
- gridlockd 7y agoJust because that one thing happens to not be entirely worthless, doesn't mean that anything has value. Also, since you're not even a professional developer, I'm not directing that advice at you.
- Wowfunhappy 7y ago> Also, since you're not even a professional developer, I'm not directing that advice at you. I think your implicit assumption that most Github projects are created as a form of resumé building is incorrect.
- gridlockd 7y agoI'm not assuming that and it's irrelevant anyway. I'm concerned with what matters, not what represents some majority. The Github profile is (part of) your portfolio and if your portfolio sucks you are worse off professionally. If that doesn't apply or matter to you, that's fine. You can move right along.