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Github PLEASE work on some kind of 'Proof Of Activity' 98% of my work is private and all employers get to see is about 100 open-source commits when I have roughly 4,000 commits throughout several private organizations. I know I need more open source contributions but I should be able to prove to an employer that I am a heavy Github user and have more experience than 100 commits. Sometimes I've been asked to send a sc…
For those of us who are business ignorant, what is the difference between President and CEO? What are the typical responsibilities of each and such?
While there are a lot of responsibilities that might vary company-to-company, the CEO reports to the Board of Directors (who represent the shareholders). Shareholders have control over the company because they can elect the Board of Directors (and depending on structure the CEO). The board has control because they get a vote on important matters like major officers and big expenditures. Depending on structure, they m…
As soon as Tom becomes President he gets a Secret Service detail with dark sunglasses! That animated gif is hilarious.
It would've been a bit funnier if suddenly his half of the gif was transported to the Github Oval Office replica[1]. 1. http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/09/07/githubs-new-offi...
Why are they using GIF for video, instead of a proper video file in the video tag?
Github PLEASE work on some kind of 'Proof Of Activity' 98% of my work is private and all employers get to see is about 100 open-source commits when I have roughly 4,000 commits throughout several private organizations. I know I need more open source contributions but I should be able to prove to an employer that I am a heavy Github user and have more experience than 100 commits. Sometimes I've been asked to send a sc…
GitHub, please don't spend time pandering to employers who have indefensibly poor metrics for evaluating employees. Instead, please spend that time improving things for your users.
My dissertation project is in a Github private repository, yet it looks like I abandoned Github - at least to the few people who seem interested in what I do.
Combine this with the use of StackOverflow Careers and Github Jobs, I might as well have died as far as potential employers are concerned.
As soon as Tom becomes President he gets a Secret Service detail with dark sunglasses! That animated gif is hilarious.
It would've been a bit funnier if suddenly his half of the gif was transported to the Github Oval Office replica[1]. 1. http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/09/07/githubs-new-offi...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
GitHub, please don't spend time pandering to employers who have indefensibly poor metrics for evaluating employees. Instead, please spend that time improving things for your users.
It's not just employees, it's students. My dissertation project is in a Github private repository, yet it looks like I abandoned Github - at least to the few people who seem interested in what I do. Combine this with the use of StackOverflow Careers and Github Jobs, I might as well have died as far as potential employers are concerned.
Github PLEASE work on some kind of 'Proof Of Activity' 98% of my work is private and all employers get to see is about 100 open-source commits when I have roughly 4,000 commits throughout several private organizations. I know I need more open source contributions but I should be able to prove to an employer that I am a heavy Github user and have more experience than 100 commits. Sometimes I've been asked to send a sc…
Using total number of github commits as any sort of qualifier for employment is as bad (maybe even worse) as asking for a wc -l LOC count on your last project. To be clear, I don't have an issue with github contributions being seen as a plus for hiring... but trying to turn this into something concretely quantifiable via total commit count (especially on commits you can't even see) seems crazy to me. Please let me kn…
-They are assuming I have little to no experience in a service they use every day.
-They are assuming I don't contribute to Open Source in any way (I contribute to private repos that are at the core of several large OS projects but are private for business concerns).
-Github provides an easy metric to see what most of my work is. I can see that 45% of my work is done in Python, and maybe the rest in front-end tech. That would be useful information to an employer if I apply to an Obj-C position.
Actually the work I am most proud of is in my side-projects, which I would much rather employers go on and interact with rather than scour over the github repo. Posted above is not just something I want, but something I see much more value in for Github to become a more friendly intermediary between employer/employee.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would've been a bit funnier if suddenly his half of the gif was transported to the Github Oval Office replica[1]. 1. http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/09/07/githubs-new-offi...
Is there one person that gets to work in there, or do they rotate it?
(As an aside, the idea behind the Oval Office as a visitor's reception is to turn the notion on its head a little bit. We've all been to companies where the reception area is just an afterthought, and you're stuck awkwardly standing in the middle of an open floor, not knowing what to do next. Our Oval is a tongue-in-cheek jab at that, and an attempt to make things a little more, well, interesting while you're waiting for a GitHubber to meet you.)