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it won't help, when given a github profile most people will go read your actual commits we do not give a darn about stars
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I had a friend working with a well known startup founder. The founder was interested in me from what my friend told him, all he wanted to see was my github profile. All of my github projects are private. That was the end of that, even after he already knew that my experience was perfect for their company. So ya, some people definitely put too much emphasis on the github profile.
this is a perfectly reasonable decision when hiring for a startup, why waste hours, that you don't have, on interviews testing the candidate when you can lookup their past work
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I agree GitHub is not popular because of its minimal and pointless social features. It became popular because Git is good and they nailed the cloud part of source control. However, social was definitely there as part of the original pitch. The tagline was "social coding" for a long time. But also if you're buying GitHub stars or worrying about people's contribution squares, you're probably not doing great work.
> I agree GitHub is not popular because of its minimal and pointless social features. I'm not sure I agree. I believe that having a profile for open source work, tracking issues, comments, tagging people in comments, assigning tasks, etc, are all core to GitHub's popularity. Now with issue and comment upvotes, following users, etc, it's even better. A couple of years ago I went through a phase where I was convinced t…
Is this really a thing or just some local phenomena? I can't remember that the github profile played a role in any hiring committee i've been part of (western europe) as people understood that most of the experienced software developers aren't active open source contributors.
Don't know, but you can definitely find GitHub profiles built on reattributing other people's PRs to OSS projects, and they end up working for Google.
I went down the rabbit hole of buying GitHub Stars, so you won't have to - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36151140 - June 2023 (178 comments)
Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35207020 - March 2023 (284 comments)
Ask HN: Has GitHub stars become a gamed metric? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33225477 - Oct 2022 (19 comments)
Most of the comments here seem to assume buying stars is about making personal profiles more attractive to hiring. I doubt that's the motivation here. I think this is about projects themselves wanting a high star count in order to attract users, customers and investors.
I beg to differ on the concept that github became popular because it integrated social media features. I would assert that github became popular because it offered free online git repo hosting. The social media stuff was only long after the fact, and accelerated under M$ ownership. An old adage was: Every s/w evolves until it becomes an email client The modern version is: Every s/w evolves until it becomes facebook..…
1. lots of other people used it
2. it provided auditable provenance for all contributions to dlang
3. I got tired of people copying my code and then claiming I stole it from them. Github ended all that
4. it provides a great distributed backup
5. nobody complained about it :-/
6. Dlang is in the D business, not the repository business. Best to not invent our own.
7. it provides everything we need
8. I didn't think git or github was going to go dark on us
I beg to differ on the concept that github became popular because it integrated social media features. I would assert that github became popular because it offered free online git repo hosting. The social media stuff was only long after the fact, and accelerated under M$ ownership. An old adage was: Every s/w evolves until it becomes an email client The modern version is: Every s/w evolves until it becomes facebook..…
Github became popular because it was SourceForge without all the bullshit.
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I had a friend working with a well known startup founder. The founder was interested in me from what my friend told him, all he wanted to see was my github profile. All of my github projects are private. That was the end of that, even after he already knew that my experience was perfect for their company. So ya, some people definitely put too much emphasis on the github profile.
this is a perfectly reasonable decision when hiring for a startup, why waste hours, that you don't have, on interviews testing the candidate when you can lookup their past work
I can share my random side projects... but what is the use of that? They aren't that impressive compared to my actual work.
My fear is that I will have to put lots of advertising into myself for things that don't describe what I actually do.