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Re: GitHub Résumé

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Post by davidcoallier »

volaski wrote: post #18
parshap wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To credit the original author, Github profile pages have evolved a lot since this project was created (~3 years ago) and much of what you see now is likely influenced by projects like this.

I understand, and I didn't mean to discredit the site itself. I was just pointing out the weird upvote behavior here. It would have been very useful and clever idea back then but why is it #1 today? is what I don't understand

Seems to be a yearly cyclical thing with resume.github.com. I don't know why but as the author, I find it amusing :-)

Re: GitHub Résumé

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Post by hackernewsguy »

Some of my most important projects are open sourced under my company's account and this won't show any of them even though I contributed 90% of the code. This only shows my personal side projects that are done for fun. Any chance this could change in the future?

Re: GitHub Résumé

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Post by Cakez0r »

krrishd wrote: post #2

Personally, I like http://osrc.dfm.io simply because it provides way more detail and insight into the user. Just my opinion though, this is still pretty cool.

"Lewis Ellington is a heavy hitting JavaScripter..." Hmm... I hate javascript and most of my code is in C#

C# (76%) JavaScript (7%)

Re: GitHub Résumé

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Post by ics »

ultimoo wrote: post #16

> As a software startup owner I really enjoy when people send us their résumés and they include their github account so we can see tangible work they have done. I sometimes feel very insecure when I read statements like this. I consider myself a good and a passionate programmer with "above-average programming skills", if there is such a thing. However, I have (so far) never been able to manage contributing to open so…

I've always had the impression that it's just an easier way of dealing with potential hires but by no means the only way. If the company you are applying to is an active contributor to OSS then it would probably be more important as a gauge of some workflow they'd like to see. Maybe I'm wrong though– I've never gone through that process myself.

Re: GitHub Résumé

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Post by priyadarshy »

I would not want an employer to use this to evaluate me because it is called my "github resume" and somehow implies that it is my summary of my experiences, abilities, skills and potential.

You don't need to be an active github user to be a good developer (I am not even a good developer) and you should be able to present your resume as you deem fit.

Obviously if this allowed me to own my account and easily customize how my github works gets displayed I'd be more interested. Until then, this feels like pushing my github work through a meat grinder and evaluating the sausage instead of me.

Re: GitHub Résumé

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Post by agilebyte »

jakobe wrote: post #17
krrishd wrote: post #2

Personally, I like http://osrc.dfm.io simply because it provides way more detail and insight into the user. Just my opinion though, this is still pretty cool.

Also, I'm really flattered by osrc.dfm.io. According to http://osrc.dfm.io/jakob I'm a "high caliber Objective-C coder" in contrast to http://resume.github.io/?jakob calling me a "newbie github user".

It just displays one of the (positive sounding) adjectives next to the most used language in your profile:

https://github.com/dfm/osrc/blob/b39630fd5a6366c30bb7280f2f0...

Adjectives:

https://github.com/dfm/osrc/blob/b39630fd5a6366c30bb7280f2f0...

Re: GitHub Résumé

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Post by icelancer »

ultimoo wrote: post #16

> As a software startup owner I really enjoy when people send us their résumés and they include their github account so we can see tangible work they have done. I sometimes feel very insecure when I read statements like this. I consider myself a good and a passionate programmer with "above-average programming skills", if there is such a thing. However, I have (so far) never been able to manage contributing to open so…

>Do startups really look at github contributions as the ultimate measure of one's tech chops or are looking for people who go that extra bit and make time in their schedules for contributing back to the community?

When I was hiring, yes. There is no easier and simpler way to evaluate someone before bringing them in for an interview than checking their verifiable OSS contributions. It's low friction.

Doesn't mean we didn't consider others, but for obvious reasons people who actually could prove they had done work went to the head of the line. It's just how it is.

Re: GitHub Résumé

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Post by Surio »

ultimoo wrote: post #16

> As a software startup owner I really enjoy when people send us their résumés and they include their github account so we can see tangible work they have done. I sometimes feel very insecure when I read statements like this. I consider myself a good and a passionate programmer with "above-average programming skills", if there is such a thing. However, I have (so far) never been able to manage contributing to open so…

>> I sometimes feel very insecure when I read statements like this.

Relax. This is what happens here on HN often-times. :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

>> However, I have (so far) never been able to manage contributing to open source projects in any significant way. Sometimes I have been too busy with work projects, sometimes it has been a busy life at grad school, sometimes family,

I can take a safe bet that a lot of us here can confirm to this as well. So this is more prevalent than people care to admit/inform here.

>> and I wish I were more like them.

Not a bad wish, but if I were you, I wouldn't lose sleep over it. :) So, just keep doing what you are doing, and the opportunities (oh, there are plenty of those around. I can assure you) that arise around those things will come to you. Good luck!

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