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Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Post by mysteria »

em-bee wrote: post #34
codingdave wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I end up with a new account at every gig I work. I don't even remember them all. Maybe this is bad practice on my part, and I should be shutting them down when a job ends, but I just like the separation of personal vs. work accounts.

i actually think it is good practice. if there is any issue with the gig, they eg try to force you to hand over access to the account, or someone is breaking into your github account then you don't expose all your other work. there may be an issue with github TOS not allowing more than one free account per person though. i don't know if that is still the case, but then i would get a paid account for each paid gig and…

Regardless of whether they allow it or not I know a lot of people with two personal accounts. One "professional" real name account that they list on their resume and another "anonymous" account with a screen name where they work on projects they don't want to be directly attributed to.

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Post by toastedwedge »

codexb wrote: post #49

> For developers around the world, a busy GitHub profile is one of the best ways to land a programming job. I've been programming for 20 years and very little of that shows up on any public or private github repo.

Anecdata: My experience when asking others around my region (mid-southern US, not quite Midwest) is that no one ever looks at that kind of thing. If they do look, they look at the projects being made and how your methodology / way of thinking handles a situation, not how active the profile is.

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Post by smitty1110 »

chromaton wrote: post #35

By the metrics on this page, 6% of the US population has a GitHub account. Seems a bit high to me.

I mean, I have three right now: Personal, corporate, and one for a specific contract. The number may jump to 4 later this year.

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Post by flir »

astrea wrote: post #37
codingdave wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I end up with a new account at every gig I work. I don't even remember them all. Maybe this is bad practice on my part, and I should be shutting them down when a job ends, but I just like the separation of personal vs. work accounts.

This is crazy to me as someone from the private sector. You all just code where the world can see?

I have "me at home" and "me at work" accounts, I don't generally create a new at-work account for each job. Maybe I should.

I've been trying to do more hobbyist work in public repos. It's not like there's a Greek chorus waiting to pounce on every mistake. Truth is, nobody cares.

It's freeing, in a way, because "I'll publish it when it's done" actually means "I'll never publish it at all".

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Post by leonheld »

denton-scratch wrote: post #43
Oarch wrote: post #3

These numbers imply 4.5% of the entire UK population had an active GitHub account in Q3 2023. Seems very high. Unless there are people out there with huge numbers of accounts? Can anyone explain this?

I've been a UK developer for 50 years. I've never had a Github account. I doubt I'm unique, nor even unusual. I don't participate in any Github-hosted projects (which usually means open-source). I happen to dislike git. It stands to reason that Github would want to promote the notion that you can't be a real developer unless you're on Github. You can't generalize from "number of Github accounts" to "number of develop…

You also cannot generalize this statement:

> I doubt I'm unique, nor even unusual.

Yet, you do.

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Post by em-bee »

mysteria wrote: post #51
em-bee wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i actually think it is good practice. if there is any issue with the gig, they eg try to force you to hand over access to the account, or someone is breaking into your github account then you don't expose all your other work. there may be an issue with github TOS not allowing more than one free account per person though. i don't know if that is still the case, but then i would get a paid account for each paid gig and…

Regardless of whether they allow it or not I know a lot of people with two personal accounts. One "professional" real name account that they list on their resume and another "anonymous" account with a screen name where they work on projects they don't want to be directly attributed to.

it is worth noting that in a conversation i had with a github employee regarding this issue that they were sympathetic to this situation. to be fair, a work account should really be paid for by the company. so i think github is going to tolerate this because they should really go after the company not individual users in that case.

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Post by denton-scratch »

leonheld wrote: post #56
denton-scratch wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been a UK developer for 50 years. I've never had a Github account. I doubt I'm unique, nor even unusual. I don't participate in any Github-hosted projects (which usually means open-source). I happen to dislike git. It stands to reason that Github would want to promote the notion that you can't be a real developer unless you're on Github. You can't generalize from "number of Github accounts" to "number of develop…

You also cannot generalize this statement: > I doubt I'm unique, nor even unusual. Yet, you do.

> Yet, you do.

No, I don't. TBH, I don't really know what it would mean to generalize "I doubt I'm unique, nor even unusual". Would that be something like "I doubt anyone's unique, nor even unusual"? I certainly didn't say anything like that.

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Post by SiempreViernes »

denton-scratch wrote: post #58
leonheld wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You also cannot generalize this statement: > I doubt I'm unique, nor even unusual. Yet, you do.

> Yet, you do. No, I don't. TBH, I don't really know what it would mean to generalize "I doubt I'm unique, nor even unusual". Would that be something like "I doubt anyone's unique, nor even unusual"? I certainly didn't say anything like that.

the claim that you are not unusual is blatantly you generalising from your own experience! You didn't even bother with the figleaf of "and I know many others like me"...
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