and use hacker names Amusing to see this phrased, since even before the Internet we had a perfectly cromulent word for this: handle.
cromulent, huh?
heh
Hide your real name in Open Source
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#22Hide your name or else some crazy people might want to destroy your life and take over your project from you.
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#24Generally decent advice. I like my privacy and I use handles everywhere I can, I've even worked remotely and the employer didn't know my real name until they had to send the first paycheck :)
The reasoning in the article seems weak tho. I would guess the author is lashing out after a bad interview or something.
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#25The first part is the standard "companies think you are not committed" part .. depends on the company. The second part reads like a long version of "I'd like to behave like an asshole without any consequences, here's how to do it". Talking about "attacked for wrongthink" or "are certain that they are not one of the politicians" confirms that suspicion for me. Long story short: If you want to be an asshole using your…
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#26and use hacker names Amusing to see this phrased, since even before the Internet we had a perfectly cromulent word for this: handle.
Crash Override. Acid Burn. Lord Nikon.
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#27I feel like being active on GitHub definitely helped me getting my current job. Regarding "wrongthink", it's generally a good idea to keep politics out of your professional GitHub account if you want to work at a place that may not align with your opinions. Or your opinions are spicy in general. The sort of people that post on HN can usually pick their jobs, which is why I'm surprised someone here would want a job wh…
> generally a good idea to keep politics out of your professional GitHub account People have been banned from Github projects for stuff that they said on Twitter that had nothing to do with their activity in open source, because it "made other contributors feel unwelcome". If the thought police will want to dig up dirt on you, they will gladly turn to any other social media available.
This. There have been historical cases where off-project controversies have gotten people banned and with the recent announcement from Linus Torvalds, I do believe we'll see more of them in the future.
Re: Hide your real name in Open Source
#28and use hacker names Amusing to see this phrased, since even before the Internet we had a perfectly cromulent word for this: handle.
handle, username, pseudonym, account name, etc.
You were told never to give your real name or any identifying info on the internet. It wasn't until facebook that people started using their real name in droves. Another reason to despise facebook.
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#29I can't really follow the logic here -- maybe it's really just related to investment banks? I'm doing a lot of Github comments and worked with institutions that usually are considered secretive, and they usually don't care at all. I've only heard once a feedback about my commits on Github and that was “I've checked you out on Github, cool, the other applicants didn't even have projects on it." Maybe it's a German thi…
I work for an investment bank and have interviewed at plenty of other financial institutions, including other investment banks and hedge funds. Few have commented on my open source work, and those that have basically said, "We checked out your project, it looks pretty cool." I had one particularly tech-savvy CEO personally reach out and try to recruit me because of my open source work. My project wasn't directly rela…
> If you run into this sort of thing when applying for jobs in the financial sector, you're looking at the wrong jobs (or the wrong banks).
I agree. Personally I couldn't imagine working at a company that was hostile to my open source contributions, anyway. If I was contributing to something controversial, maybe.
Of course that's a reaction coming from privilege: I can afford to turn away potential employers like that. Maybe my Github profile has turned people away. If so, I don't see it as a loss.
On the other hand, I've fairly regularly gotten contacted by recruiters pointing out they've seen I have a variety of Ruby projects on my Github, for example, so overall I'd be surprised if it is overall a bad thing for most people.
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