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Re:When it comes to hiring, I'll take a Github commit log ov... by dpritchett on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @07:50PM (#2389762)
While filling out my profile it struck me that I'd love a friend finding service: Find me programmers within 50 miles of my stated location who share interests and experiences in some of the many tags I chose for myself. I'd like to meet them and have a beer.
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Re:When it comes to hiring, I'll take a Github commit log ov... by mwsherman on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @08:51PM (#2389951)
We'd need a word like "bromance", but for nerds.
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Re:When it comes to hiring, I'll take a Github commit log ov... by cycojesus on Thursday March 31, 2011 @12:03AM (#2390385)
Yuck, no.
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Re:When it comes to hiring, I'll take a Github commit log ov... by int3 on Thursday March 31, 2011 @02:29AM (#2390611)
I'm doing some initial work on that.
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Re:When it comes to hiring, I'll take a Github commit log ov... by dpritchett on Thursday March 31, 2011 @09:34AM (#2391454)
The key here is that StackExchange has a high usage rate amongst programmers and it allows me to register interests in technologies that I don't have public source code for.

Facebook has a nice social graph but no angle on programmer socialization. Github's API can let you infer which open source languages I dabble in, but not at all what I do at my day job. Good luck to you though, I'd love to see the product.

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