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Shipping a product (even if it's just a dumb little side project) is way more impressive to most people than contributing a patch to an open source project. I
by jarin 16y ago
Shipping a product (even if it's just a dumb little side project) is way more impressive to most people than contributing a patch to an open source project.
I contribute to projects that I use as often as I can, but I've never had to point a potential client to my Github account to land a contract.
- jrockway 16y agoImpressive to the average person, yes, but not impressive to people hiring someone to work on a team. It's great to be able to do whatever you want, but it takes a special kind of person to put their personal tastes aside, open up someone else's work, and fix it. Incidentally, that's what most programming jobs are, and most people are terrible at it.