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Re: HackerSurfing: Free Housing and Food for Engineers Visiting SF

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Post by bengale »

throwaway1979 wrote: post #26

Cool, commendable effort. One frustration I have is the (possibly soft) requirement for showing your work ala github profile or something else. I've noticed quite a few job postings where they ask you for a github profile. All my code belongs to my employer and I can't put stuff up on github. Not sure how people who are in this stupid situation deal with the new reality that github is your resume these days?

Will your company not give you clearance for code written outside of work? I asked and got something in writing about code I write at home being mine.

I just do all of my spikes and silly side projects in the open now. If someone is even interested enough to have a look I count that as a win.

Re: HackerSurfing: Free Housing and Food for Engineers Visiting SF

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Post by vonmoltke »

rb2k_ wrote: post #88
throwaway1979 wrote: post #26

Cool, commendable effort. One frustration I have is the (possibly soft) requirement for showing your work ala github profile or something else. I've noticed quite a few job postings where they ask you for a github profile. All my code belongs to my employer and I can't put stuff up on github. Not sure how people who are in this stupid situation deal with the new reality that github is your resume these days?

I think it is. Most good people I interviewed so far had something on there from pet projects. I wouldn't expect that code to be brilliant, but just the fact that they know how to use git, maybe even react to issues / PRs is a good start. I personally have a lot of small cruft on mine (old blog migration scripts), a commandline video downloader that has a few issues, ... None of that code was done on company time, bu…

> Most good people I interviewed so far had something on there from pet projects.

So the good people who didn't are just SOL? I say this as someone who actually has crap published, albeit nothing complicated.

Furthermore, The "Github is your resume" crowd always claims they want to use it to see examples of how you code, meaning at least some of whatever you put there is supposed to be production-quality and representative of what you do or would write at your day job. They have a point, because otherwise Github is basically useless as a screening tool.

Re: HackerSurfing: Free Housing and Food for Engineers Visiting SF

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Post by vonmoltke »

burger_moon wrote: post #59
michaelchisari wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've got plenty of open source code in my github, and the irony is that I don't know if anybody I've interviewed with has ever really looked at it. They might want to know it exists, but it's not like they do code reviews.

I have yet to go to an interview and the employer looked at my github or portfolio. I know it's pushed hard but so far it hasn't mattered in the least.

My current one poked through it, but that was three years ago, when just having Github repos at all still had some signalling value.

Re: HackerSurfing: Free Housing and Food for Engineers Visiting SF

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Post by mbesto »

He Wefunder guys, thanks for all of this!

Given that this was supposed to happen over a year ago, how realistic is "In October 2015, the Law changes: Startup investing won't be just for the wealthy"[0]. Specifically the October 2015 part?

[0] - https://wefunder.com/jobs

Re: HackerSurfing: Free Housing and Food for Engineers Visiting SF

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Post by gamegoblin »

jonalmeida wrote: post #89
skizm wrote: post #78

The guy with the laptop in the tub is making me uncomfortable on several levels.

That has to be a planned/posed image. There's no way one could focus so intently while hot water bubbles around you..

It is possible for sure.

I actually do code in the bathtub, but not like that. You can't reliably hold a laptop on your bare bent legs -- the lack of friction caused by leg hair will make it slide towards you (and into the water if the water is too high). If the guy were to put both hands on the keyboard and code, the laptop would not stay in place.

The only way to do it comfortably is to sit with your legs straight and flat in front of you (in a tub style bath, not a deep jacuzzi like pictured), raise the water level to about .75 inches (2cm) below the laptop (resting on your flat thighs), then lower the flow of water to a hot trickle and open the drain to match the in-flow. The hot trickle is to keep the temperature at a steady state of hotness.

My tub-style bath is not wide enough for my laptop to accidentally fall into the water to the side. The only way it could come in contact with water is if I sloshed around from side to side to make waves, which I don't do.

Re: HackerSurfing: Free Housing and Food for Engineers Visiting SF

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Post by nbardy »

I just applied and this is really a perfect fit for me. However, I have a hard time seeing who else would be interested in this opportunity. I'm currently traveling and bouncing around so spending some time in San Francisco sounds great.

Anyone else who signed up, what position are you in where living in San Francisco for a couple days works for you?

Re: HackerSurfing: Free Housing and Food for Engineers Visiting SF

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Post by cpb »

gamegoblin wrote: post #97
jonalmeida wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That has to be a planned/posed image. There's no way one could focus so intently while hot water bubbles around you..

It is possible for sure. I actually do code in the bathtub, but not like that. You can't reliably hold a laptop on your bare bent legs -- the lack of friction caused by leg hair will make it slide towards you (and into the water if the water is too high). If the guy were to put both hands on the keyboard and code, the laptop would not stay in place. The only way to do it comfortably is to sit with your legs straight…

My brother marks his undergrad's papers from his bathtub, and frequently computes there. He has a wood board that goes across the tub. A compromise of ergonomics, but, he maintains its still the best.
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