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This'll probably get me downvoted but I suspect the comments come from a position of insecurity as older tech people with kids and without much spare time are a

by pydry 5y ago

This'll probably get me downvoted but I suspect the comments come from a position of insecurity as older tech people with kids and without much spare time are afraid a line on their CV might not be competitive with 20 somethings with a shiny github profile.

7speter 5y ago
Whats more absurd is I may end up like these people rather soon since I’m a 30 something :)
Juliate 5y ago
There's part of that, and that's a good thing: having kids, not having much spare time for work-related stuff _is a good thing_. As the contrary. It's up to your options and your choices. And that's irrelevant to your employment/work capacity. A decent recruiter is aware of that. Others are optimizing for something else than a balanced contractual work relationship.
- pydry 5y ago
  it's entirely irrelevant to work capacity. It's a popular thing to look for because where it does exist and is good it's a strong hard-to-bullshit signal of a good developer. That doesnt mean that the candidates who dont have it arent equally good. It just means that you cant easily tell it without investing resources into interviewing them and others who look as good as them.
scarface74 5y ago
I have these things called hobbies and a life outside of coding. When I was single, my hobby was teaching fitness classes, personal training, weightlifting and running. Coding has merely been a method to turn labor into money to support my addiction to food and shelter for over 25 years.
watwut 5y ago
People "without much spare time" are actually fine. Their github profile is actually empty or non-existent. So, this whole thing is not threat to them at all. OP will continue to read their CV without finding something bad on github. But, people who do use github a lot as a place to mess in are threatened.

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This'll probably get me downvoted but I suspect the comments come from a position of insecurity as older tech people with kids and without much spare time are a

by pydry 5y ago

7speter 5y ago
Whats more absurd is I may end up like these people rather soon since I’m a 30 something :)
Juliate 5y ago
There's part of that, and that's a good thing: having kids, not having much spare time for work-related stuff _is a good thing_. As the contrary. It's up to your options and your choices. And that's irrelevant to your employment/work capacity. A decent recruiter is aware of that. Others are optimizing for something else than a balanced contractual work relationship.
- pydry 5y ago
  it's entirely irrelevant to work capacity. It's a popular thing to look for because where it does exist and is good it's a strong hard-to-bullshit signal of a good developer. That doesnt mean that the candidates who dont have it arent equally good. It just means that you cant easily tell it without investing resources into interviewing them and others who look as good as them.
scarface74 5y ago
I have these things called hobbies and a life outside of coding. When I was single, my hobby was teaching fitness classes, personal training, weightlifting and running. Coding has merely been a method to turn labor into money to support my addiction to food and shelter for over 25 years.
watwut 5y ago
People "without much spare time" are actually fine. Their github profile is actually empty or non-existent. So, this whole thing is not threat to them at all. OP will continue to read their CV without finding something bad on github. But, people who do use github a lot as a place to mess in are threatened.