Re:Leveling up as a Junior Engineer
by enraged_camel on Monday June 19, 2017 @10:51AM
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>>Many of the very best engineers are effectively prohibited from having Github projects.
Many, sure. But the OP's comment was "Of the 10 or so water walkers I've worked with, 0 have github accounts."
Surely people understand how asinine it is to believe that a sample size of 10 of OP's "water walkers" is a representative sample?
This comes off a little aggressive to me. People should be able to provide opinions and anecdotes on HN without the constant "citation needed" for everything. We all know everything isn't fully backed by 4 studies that will be presented here and now. Just say you disagree and offer why. It will probably be an anecdote too.
Re:Leveling up as a Junior Engineer
by enraged_camel on Monday June 19, 2017 @01:50PM
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On the other hand, if everyone used "anecdata" to support their arguments, we would never get anywhere.
If you want to make qualitative arguments, make qualitative arguments. What I absolutely can't stand is lame attempts to lend weight in such arguments using completely unverifiable and most likely non-representative numbers.
But the guy was just giving his opinion...
Re:Leveling up as a Junior Engineer
by plinkplonk on Monday June 19, 2017 @01:15PM
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fwiw I know 6 'water walkers' and none of them have github accounts.
Not saying this is universally true. Just another anecdotal sample.
This isn't a major issue if you are an app developer because a side project app is unlikely to convey valuable trade secrets. A database kernel engineer, on the other hand, can't have any side projects related to databases that demonstrate their skill level because such a demonstration would violate their non-disclosure restrictions.