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Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for Using GitHub

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Re: Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for Using GitHub

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Post by personjerry »

> You heard it here first folks, GitHub IS NOT the industry standard for code collaboration and version control, an expected tool for anyone entering the industry and a priceless skill for any aspiring developer

Indeed, it's not. It's a popular online hosting service for repositories for said tool, said tool being `git`, which by the way is fully functional for version control without a remote repository.

GitHub uses Jekyll as a template engine for Github Pages, and it was even mentioned in the rules, so technically they are in the right.

Re: Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for Using GitHub

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Post by berry_sortoro »

justinclift wrote: post #10

Hmmm, the html files seem like the output of some form of generation, or perhaps a crappy web editor? eg: * https://github.com/thstsa/spacetourism/blob/main/technologie... * https://github.com/thstsa/spacetourism/blob/main/index.html * https://github.com/thstsa/spacetourism/blob/main/pricing.htm... Those multi-line blank gaps all over the place are not something that generally occur in hand crafted or "from scratch"…

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Re: Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for Using GitHub

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Post by toastal »

signin0305 wrote: post #22

Hi, I'm Shiloh, the guy that made the original reddit post and medium article. After reading some comments, I clarified my statement on GitHub's role in the CS industry

Training our next generation on proprietary tools like GitHub isn't the way though. Understanding a VCS (i.e. Git, Mercurial, darcs, Pijul, etc.) is great skill and almost certainly a job requirement, but a specific platform? Its classification as “industry standard” could and should be debated as well.

Re: Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for Using GitHub

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Post by peterkelly »

This is one of those important events in life where you realise that sometimes those who hold seniority over you aren't necessarily as smart as you are. This experience will help you to cultivate a healthy disrespect for authority. We all go through something like this at some point.

The best thing to do is to find some sort of constructive way to channel your experience. One path I would suggest is to consider launching your own rival competition, where the judges are volunteers from industry, and the prize is an internship at a company or something like that. This would not only provide your peers with a great opportunity to get quality feedback, but also serve as a really useful experience that would help you in your future career. What have you got to lose?

Perhaps you could even get GitHub to sponsor it :)

Re: Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for Using GitHub

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Post by satvikpendem »

ugh123 wrote: post #25

A [shitty] lesson learned for the unfair, arbitrary, or flat out incorrect decision-making by others that will affect you throughout life. How we react is what will make us.

Sometimes we need a different point of vue, sometimes more angular than others.

Re: Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for Using GitHub

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Post by [deleted] »

lord_sudo wrote: post #16
justinclift wrote: post #10

Hmmm, the html files seem like the output of some form of generation, or perhaps a crappy web editor? eg: * https://github.com/thstsa/spacetourism/blob/main/technologie... * https://github.com/thstsa/spacetourism/blob/main/index.html * https://github.com/thstsa/spacetourism/blob/main/pricing.htm... Those multi-line blank gaps all over the place are not something that generally occur in hand crafted or "from scratch"…

Just my 2c, but those gaps look too uneven to be produced by a framework. They remind me of my own html from scratch when I didn’t use a formatter or linter haha

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