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A comment on Ask HN: What do you think about the self-promotion titles on GitHub?.

Re:Ask HN: What do you think about the self-promotion titles... by zorked on Thursday June 11, 2020 @12:58PM (#23490839)
In general it is fine to put whatever your job title is. If you are a Grand-Master Senior Foobar Engineer, that's fine.

It's silly to use things like "Thinker, dreamer and entrepreneur".

Most really great people I know only use something like "System Engineer" or "Software Developer" though. I know this super-experienced guy who has "Programmer". There may be wisdom in removing adjectives.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think about the self-promotion titles... by gpanders on Thursday June 11, 2020 @01:02PM (#23490883)
Indeed, the trope of "<verb>er, <verb>er, <noun>, <verb>er of <noun>s" is so overused that it's basically self-effacing at this point.
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