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This is exactly why Github will not ever be the standard. It's fine to show off what you play around with in your spare time, but the very best and most produc
by balloot 15y ago
This is exactly why Github will not ever be the standard. It's fine to show off what you play around with in your spare time, but the very best and most productive workers actually won't have an extensive up-to-date Github repo. This is because they're been gainfully employed and have spent the vast majority of their coding time kicking ass at their real job.
In short, while people with impressive Github contributions can generally be good employees (but not always!), many good employees simply don't have time or interest for open source / side projects.
- pwim 15y agoIt's fine to show off what you play around with in your spare time, but the very best and most productive workers actually won't have an extensive up-to-date Github repo. This is because they're been gainfully employed and have spent the vast majority of their coding time kicking ass at their real job. Coming from the Rails world, this isn't true. Through my job, I fix problems with Rails or plugins I encounter. This may only account for say two percent of my development time, but that is significant enough to have a trail of pull requests.
- human_error 15y ago> This is because they're been gainfully employed and have spent the vast majority of their coding time kicking ass at their real job. I disagree. I've fixed and contributed to projects I've been using in my real job. In fact, I found the bug while I was working on the real job.
- peteretep 15y agoI'm not sure that's what he's saying; I for one find my open source contributions decrease when I'm doing work I find fulfilling during the hours of 9-5...