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Re:We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016) by malvosenior on Thursday December 12, 2019 @04:30PM (#21776716)
That's the beauty of it being published on Github. I can look at the project and see if it was just a `git push` of something meaningless or if it's actually well thought out and demonstrates ability.
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Re:We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016) by scarface74 on Friday December 13, 2019 @09:32AM (#21781859)
That may show an ability to write software. But shipping and putting them on production servers is still different v
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Re:We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016) by malvosenior on Friday December 13, 2019 @10:04AM (#21782162)
Shipping is different than deploying server-side code. Going from concept to execution is shipping, and it's what I look for in a candidate. Again, this has worked out very well for me. An added bonus is if you hire OSS contributors, they tend to attract more OSS contributors.
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