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Re:The fastest-growing countries for software development, a... by em-bee on Monday February 05, 2024 @09:34AM (#39261602)
i actually think it is good practice. if there is any issue with the gig, they eg try to force you to hand over access to the account, or someone is breaking into your github account then you don't expose all your other work.

there may be an issue with github TOS not allowing more than one free account per person though. i don't know if that is still the case, but then i would get a paid account for each paid gig and just add it to the bill.

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Re:The fastest-growing countries for software development, a... by progval on Monday February 05, 2024 @10:12AM (#39262013)
> there may be an issue with github TOS not allowing more than one free account per person though. i don't know if that is still the case

it is: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...

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Re:The fastest-growing countries for software development, a... by mysteria on Monday February 05, 2024 @11:14AM (#39262751)
Regardless of whether they allow it or not I know a lot of people with two personal accounts. One "professional" real name account that they list on their resume and another "anonymous" account with a screen name where they work on projects they don't want to be directly attributed to.
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Re:The fastest-growing countries for software development, a... by em-bee on Monday February 05, 2024 @12:09PM (#39263578)
it is worth noting that in a conversation i had with a github employee regarding this issue that they were sympathetic to this situation. to be fair, a work account should really be paid for by the company. so i think github is going to tolerate this because they should really go after the company not individual users in that case.
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