> it takes 100 commits to turn a gray square green on her contribution graph
I wonder if people "game" the system here (since apparently it's an important metric). For example, you could split a commit in two ...
Life as a GitHub Intern: What laser cutting taught me about contribution graphs
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Re: Life as a GitHub Intern: What laser cutting taught me about contribution graphs
#32> it takes 100 commits to turn a gray square green on her contribution graph I wonder if people "game" the system here (since apparently it's an important metric). For example, you could split a commit in two ...
I had it pretty much solid green at one point, thanks to a hacky script that polled a website and committed & pushed the content as it changed. Wasn't even trying to game it, but it would be incredibly easy to do so.
Re: Life as a GitHub Intern: What laser cutting taught me about contribution graphs
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wished more recruiters got this. The bulk of many professional's work i would imagine is deemed proprietary company property and not everyone really has the life that affords them the time to commit frequently to someone else's pet project repository because we have kids and families that soak up that time. "Do you have a GitHub profile?" Is a question thats making me raise an eyebrow more and more lately, what if…
> what if I don't? god I hope this is exaggerated lol. Filthy recruiter, how can they even ask such a question. How dare they ask whether I make tech world better outside my job. Muh keeds, muh family. > my code The one that is built on titanic effort of others not all of which was compensated in any way at all?
To other jobs have such requirements? And also what should you do? Throw away your non-engineering private life so you can find a job easier later at some point?
Re: Life as a GitHub Intern: What laser cutting taught me about contribution graphs
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
> what if I don't? god I hope this is exaggerated lol. Filthy recruiter, how can they even ask such a question. How dare they ask whether I make tech world better outside my job. Muh keeds, muh family. > my code The one that is built on titanic effort of others not all of which was compensated in any way at all?
To other jobs have such requirements? And also what should you do? Throw away your non-engineering private life so you can find a job easier later at some point?
>To other jobs have such requirements?
Do other jobs have such benefits? Remote work all over the globe for example? The fact that everyone needs IT these days and so you have tons of work? Nice comfy offices? Apples to oranges won't fly.
> And also what should you do?
Find a work-life balance instead of answering a fair question with a defensive silly question of your own (I ain't even a recruiter and that answer right there made me lol, imagine a guy having to listen to that defensive shit and still having to try and salvage a candidate because he may have strict job requirements). And by that balance I mean either work your ass off to produce quality code in your spare time and stand out among candidates or don't and someone else will stand out instead.
Also check out the irony with this 'my code' stuff too. That's exactly why you have to work ass off in spare time: because every employer goes 'quack! it's my code, don't show it to anyone' so you can't share it with another recruiter.
Re: Life as a GitHub Intern: What laser cutting taught me about contribution graphs
#35> it takes 100 commits to turn a gray square green on her contribution graph I wonder if people "game" the system here (since apparently it's an important metric). For example, you could split a commit in two ...
Hell you could even create backdated fake commits if you wanted to.
Re: Life as a GitHub Intern: What laser cutting taught me about contribution graphs
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
To other jobs have such requirements? And also what should you do? Throw away your non-engineering private life so you can find a job easier later at some point?
>To other jobs have such requirements? Do other jobs have such benefits? Remote work all over the globe for example? The fact that everyone needs IT these days and so you have tons of work? Nice comfy offices? Apples to oranges won't fly. > And also what should you do? Find a work-life balance instead of answering a fair question with a defensive silly question of your own (I ain't even a recruiter and that answer ri…
Most dev jobs are still normal 8-5 jobs though... And pretty much none of my coworkers has an active github with breathtaking projects. I think we are in a bubble on those online communities here (online / startup / SV).
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
>To other jobs have such requirements? Do other jobs have such benefits? Remote work all over the globe for example? The fact that everyone needs IT these days and so you have tons of work? Nice comfy offices? Apples to oranges won't fly. > And also what should you do? Find a work-life balance instead of answering a fair question with a defensive silly question of your own (I ain't even a recruiter and that answer ri…
Most dev jobs are still normal 8-5 jobs though... And pretty much none of my coworkers has an active github with breathtaking projects. I think we are in a bubble on those online communities here (online / startup / SV).
Neither do mine, I'm just looking from the other, recruiter's side (not USA, no family, web platform). What makes people think that recruiters have to give time to someone who is likely worse over someone who is likely better? We are free to allocate our time as we see fit, but we must also accept full responsibility for the consequences.
Re: Life as a GitHub Intern: What laser cutting taught me about contribution graphs
#38I feel like there's a lot of untapped potential in GitHub's profile system, and this is a good example of it. The contribution graph looks pretty -- but what if it could be a souvenir? A lot of programming projects are hard to quantify in terms of success -- besides shipping the product, it's hard to see visible signs of bug reporting, refactoring, etc. I'd love to see GitHub selling physical tokens that measure this…
We develop a small SaaS solution to let sheet metal manufacturers accept custom orders online. If you are indeed interested in setting up a kind of physical token store for these I would love to help out and link this up to an actual manufacturing plant!
To hook in on the rest of the debate. It might not be the best measure to qualitatively or even quantitatively compare developer contributions. But a physical token as memento would definitely be an awesome way to be thanked for contributing to a project instead of the old buy-me-a-coffee-button.
Re: Life as a GitHub Intern: What laser cutting taught me about contribution graphs
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wished more recruiters got this. The bulk of many professional's work i would imagine is deemed proprietary company property and not everyone really has the life that affords them the time to commit frequently to someone else's pet project repository because we have kids and families that soak up that time. "Do you have a GitHub profile?" Is a question thats making me raise an eyebrow more and more lately, what if…
As someone who has been in charge of recruiting developers, one of the hardest parts is deciding if someone is really any good. Your CV and who you’ve worked for doesn’t really say anything, even after chatting to you I don’t know whether the code you are writing is going to be good or not. So I can either get you to do a coding excercise (but who has time for that, especially when you may have three other offers alr…
>If you don’t even have that, well sorry, but I’m getting plenty of CVs through everyday.
If you have a full supply of well qualified candidates, good for you because you are in the minority. However, most company's candidates are garbage and the last ones you want to lose are the ones with three competing offers.
Tell them you need a code sample, don't make stupid decisions based on presence of a github profile if you want to hire anyone above a junior level.
Re: Life as a GitHub Intern: What laser cutting taught me about contribution graphs
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wished more recruiters got this. The bulk of many professional's work i would imagine is deemed proprietary company property and not everyone really has the life that affords them the time to commit frequently to someone else's pet project repository because we have kids and families that soak up that time. "Do you have a GitHub profile?" Is a question thats making me raise an eyebrow more and more lately, what if…
> what if I don't? god I hope this is exaggerated lol. Filthy recruiter, how can they even ask such a question. How dare they ask whether I make tech world better outside my job. Muh keeds, muh family. > my code The one that is built on titanic effort of others not all of which was compensated in any way at all?
Framing a recruiter asking for a github link as a question of contributing to the tech world is disingenuous.
Stack overflow, Google, Apple, etc have contributed significantly more to the tech world than 99% of open source projects. Ruling out developers from closed source projects is myopic.
>The one that is built on titanic effort of others not all of which was compensated in any way at all?
This is how open source works. Either you are cool with giving away code without compensation that others will use or you aren't. You can't have it both ways.
I say all of this as a huge open source advocate btw.