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Re:On asking job candidates to code by pyb on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @02:06PM (#11291699)
"The one thing that isn't immediately clear from your GitHub is if YOU wrote the code and HOW you wrote the code." Spend a few minutes looking at the commit history and all shall be revealed...
Re:On asking job candidates to code by nobleach on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @04:45PM (#11292844)
History shows when you forked from somewhere, not copypasta.
Re:On asking job candidates to code by seanp2k2 on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @06:28PM (#11293509)
If you can copypasta a complex project with >dozens of active users and a commit history showing that you've made improvements to it over time, I'd argue that it's hard / pointless to distinguish that from actual programming. If you can ship working code, support it over time, and enough people appreciate what you've created to use it regularly / rely on it, why does it matter if some parts are even verbatim copied from SO or elsewhere? Thought experiment: compare this to using a library someone else wrote.