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A comment on Ask HN: I hate the code in my popular open source app; do I put it on my resume?.

Re:Ask HN: I hate the code in my popular open source app; do... by kellanem on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @12:12AM (#2465218)
As the creator of MagpieRSS I know exactly what you're talking about.

And yes, you include it. There are skills demonstrated in a popular open source project which are interesting and relevant, and very very few people are proud of the code they wrote in 2001, no matter who they are or what they do.

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Re:Ask HN: I hate the code in my popular open source app; do... by wh-uws on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @01:21AM (#2465352)
You wrote that! I used that when I first started doing web development to show posts from certain categories in wordpress before that feature made it into the core.

Man we've come a long way since then.

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Re:Ask HN: I hate the code in my popular open source app; do... by petervandijck on Monday April 25, 2011 @04:09PM (#2482692)
I used MagpieRSS in mefeedia.com, thanks for that :) Just think, it may have been dodgy, but my own code would have been much dodgier, so don't feel too bad :)
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Re:Ask HN: I hate the code in my popular open source app; do... by davidandgoliath on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @03:06AM (#2465598)
Kudos, love the software. :)
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