Re:On asking job candidates to code
by pyb on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @02:06PM
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"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...
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History shows when you forked from somewhere, not copypasta.
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.