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Don't fall for that bullshit. Most of the best engineers I know don't have a github/bitbucket/sourceforge/you-name-it account, which doesn't prevent them from b

• _pmf_ 13y ago
  > which doesn't prevent them from being awesome But how can they be awesome if they don't tell the Internet about it? It's unfathomable!
  • 10098 13y ago
    To be honest, there's a little bit of "I'm too old for this shit" attitude among them. They have have demanding jobs and families, and probably couldn't care less about what internet thinks. I also have to note that I've never met a person my age (early twenties) who I could call a great engineer. Promising - yes, talented - yes, but not great. You know, the type of people that you shut up and listen to when they talk. Guess those years of experience really count... P.S.: OK, I lied, I've actually seen some guys even younger than me that are absolutely brilliant, mostly those actively participating in programming contests (ACM/TopCoder, etc.), but I wouldn't exactly put them in charge of a team building a product, if you catch my drift...
    • prawks 13y ago
      There's for sure a difference in people I would call brilliant "hackers" and people I would call brilliant "architects". I think it's very difficult to be the latter without having constructed a handful of large systems, and those take significant time even if you do them back-to-back.