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What looks sexier on your resume though: "Creator of backbone.js" (Not trying to pick on backbone since it's a great project, but you can read the entire source
by stuffihavemade 14y ago
What looks sexier on your resume though:
"Creator of backbone.js" (Not trying to pick on backbone since it's a great project, but you can read the entire source in an hour)
or
"Contributed to making AR 5% faster for certain queries"
I'd much rather see 10 people put their time towards making one project better, then seeing 10 people start 10 divergent projects with dreams of becoming the next DHH, but I recognize that there are other factors at play.
- factorialboy 14y agoContributor to a well known project > Creator of an obscure, unknown project
- stuffihavemade 14y agoSure, but a lot of programmers' dream (not mine) is to be the creator of the next big thing and gain accolades from other programmers. That won't happen if you're strictly contributing to other projects.
- zem 14y agonot sure which one you're implying sounds sexier, but if i were reading his resume, the AR contribution would definitely strike me as more significant. compare "wrote a fuse-based filesystem for whatever" versus "got several patches into the ext3 tree"