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Seems to be an obvious cut-off-the-competitor move. Github is quickly becoming a sort-of Resume for tech people. LinkedIn, so far as I've seen, is for the busin

Seems to be an obvious cut-off-the-competitor move. Github is quickly becoming a sort-of Resume for tech people. LinkedIn, so far as I've seen, is for the business-types. LinkedIn wants to capture that tech-side, but it's afraid that letting people use Github on LinkedIn will lead to people simply going to Github to look for developers.

bitops 14y ago
I really hope that's not the case. Even as a tech person, I wouldn't want people looking only at my Github page. Call me old-fashioned, but I like the "resume feeling" that LinkedIn provides.
- ikailan 14y ago
  There's space for both. Coding skills are a single dimension, and should never be the sole attribute for hiring good developers. It's about time management, project management, people management. I want to see your code, but I also want to see what you were able to do on the teams you were on. And if you were on a failing product - I want to know that, and ask you why. There's something to be said about being able to manage successful open source projects with lots of contributors. That's a huge plus in my book. The majority of programmers, though, are not going to be working on projects like this. A smaller plus is when you contribute to a large, quality project, because it shows you can learn to understand a new codebase and determination to get your patch in.
ikailan 14y ago
I don't think this is what's happening. If I had to guess, they are slowly deprecating the OpenSocial based InApps platform piece (launched in 2008 - http://socialtimes.com/linkedin-inapps-year-end-review-2008_b1004 http://socialtimes.com/linkedin-inapps-year-end-review-2008_...) by piece. This happened with LinkedIn events. I'm a bit surprised they didn't replace events with a non-InApps based version, migrating the data, but it was probably not deemed a priority.
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bitops 14y ago

I really hope that's not the case. Even as a tech person, I wouldn't want people looking only at my Github page. Call me old-fashioned, but I like the "resume feeling" that LinkedIn provides.

ikailan 14y ago
There's space for both. Coding skills are a single dimension, and should never be the sole attribute for hiring good developers. It's about time management, project management, people management. I want to see your code, but I also want to see what you were able to do on the teams you were on. And if you were on a failing product - I want to know that, and ask you why. There's something to be said about being able to manage successful open source projects with lots of contributors. That's a huge plus in my book. The majority of programmers, though, are not going to be working on projects like this. A smaller plus is when you contribute to a large, quality project, because it shows you can learn to understand a new codebase and determination to get your patch in.

ikailan 14y ago

I don't think this is what's happening. If I had to guess, they are slowly deprecating the OpenSocial based InApps platform piece (launched in 2008 - http://socialtimes.com/linkedin-inapps-year-end-review-2008_b1004 http://socialtimes.com/linkedin-inapps-year-end-review-2008_...) by piece. This happened with LinkedIn events. I'm a bit surprised they didn't replace events with a non-InApps based version, migrating the data, but it was probably not deemed a priority.

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