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Funny, I thought github was a code repository, not a personality type... real engineers know that most good code isn't on github and never will be Irrelevant.
by lutorm 15y ago
Funny, I thought github was a code repository, not a personality type...
real engineers know that most good code isn't on github and never will be
Irrelevant. Fact is, having code out there makes it easier for prospective employers to get a feel for you, there's no way around that. No one said it had to be the best code or all the code.
Now, if you are working your ass off on proprietary code and write absolutely no code outside of your work, then you won't have it. That's understandable, but doesn't change the fact that it makes it harder for someone to figure out what you can do.
- CPlatypus 15y agoThanks for the steawman. I was explicitly referring to a mentality, not to github itself. I use github. I don't share that mentality. It's not github's fault that some users treat them as an oracle, but it does happen. I have on multiple occasions heard people say that they won't hire people unless they can check out their work on github - github specifically, and no qualification or allowance for exceptions. Every time, the speaker was exactly the kind of hipster idiot that I just described. I suppose that could just be a coincidence, or it could be that people who follow one stupid trend often follow others as well. In any case, that one stupid trend is sufficisnt to make working with them unappealing, and since there are plenty of sensible employers out there it's unnecessary as well.
- lutorm 15y agoJust to let you know, I agree with you in substance. If it makes a difference to someone whether you have your code on github or sourceforge, then they're obviously pushing a dogmatic view. But like you say, that's not github's fault, so conflating them and a subset of their users in an argument doesn't seem productive.