I submitted a 3 line patch to Tornado and got an email a few months later from a Facebook recruiter. I'm fairly certain they would never actually hire me but i

I submitted a 3 line patch to Tornado and got an email a few months later from a Facebook recruiter. I'm fairly certain they would never actually hire me but if you're not getting any emails from clueless recruiters you must really be hiding yourself from the internet. Get out on GitHub and get involved in stuff. Edit: If you're even mildly competent in the things you listed on your HN profile then you'd be one of the top 10 candidates I've interviewed in the past couple years for "PHP developer" positions.