Want to Recruit Better Engineers? Open Source Your Code

Post by mariusmg » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 8:08 AM UTC

onion2k wrote: post #19

mariusmg wrote: post #12

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>I've known some brilliant engineers who don't care at all for open source code The obvious irony here is those "brilliant" engineers will use open source code even though they don't care for it.

If you go through your dev career thinking only people who write and use open source code are brilliant you'll miss out on the opportunity to learn from some of the industry's best developers. There are loads of people working on entirely closed source projects who are very, very good engineers. Not every project is web.

Post by ReptileMan » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 8:12 AM UTC

_pmf_ wrote: post #4

And here I sit, thinking that competent middle management that can actually evaluate people based on results delivered instead of attendance and therefore allows more flexible remote work instead of commuting 3 hours would help. No, open source.

Post by edem » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 8:23 AM UTC

sudhirj wrote: post #16

fapjacks wrote: post #3

I was listening to a friend's music podcast tonight and they were talking about how industry will seize on any shred of creativity so that they can use it to sell cars, and this contributes to people getting defensive about the things they like becoming popular. There is a latent fear that just over the horizon, some marketing asshole is waiting to get their hands on something that is meaningful to you, in order to a…

It’s really difficult to have your engineering quality or culture NOT reflected in your open source projects. What are you going to do, keep the regular coders locked in the basement working on CRUD apps and a penthouse full of cool evangelist programmers writing OSS for no good reason? A company’s OSS is an excellent reflection of the people, decision making processes and culture that permeates it. Look at React, Go…

Post by thecatspaw » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 8:27 AM UTC

mariusmg wrote: post #21

onion2k wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you go through your dev career thinking only people who write and use open source code are brilliant you'll miss out on the opportunity to learn from some of the industry's best developers. There are loads of people working on entirely closed source projects who are very, very good engineers. Not every project is web.

>If you go through your dev career thinking only people who write and use open source code are brilliant I didn't said that. I have just pointed that even close source developers are using open source when working daily on their closed source projects. So saying they don't care about something they use daily is ....wrong. Also I didn't said anything about their level of brilliance :) >Not ever project is web. The sna…

Post by openIce » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 8:37 AM UTC

mariusmg wrote: post #12

onion2k wrote: post #5

Anecdotally, I look at the public repos of any company advertising a job I'm interested in before I apply, so open source certainly attracts some class of developers. The problem is the assumption that people who do that are "better" in some way. I've known some brilliant engineers who don't care at all for open source code; they wrote great code that no one besides the customer would ever see or use. That doesn't ma…

>I've known some brilliant engineers who don't care at all for open source code The obvious irony here is those "brilliant" engineers will use open source code even though they don't care for it.