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Re:Become the most frequent committer on Github by ihsw on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @11:50AM (#6173585)
Public and open-source contributions aren't a measure of skill, in fact they're not a measure of anything other than public and open-source contributions.

Personally I try to keep all of my work as private as possible. There is no particular reason, I'm just a private person.

Do you really want to work for a company that measures competence based on pissing-contest and attention-whoring mentality?

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Re:Become the most frequent committer on Github by delinka on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @01:31PM (#6174233)
"Public and open-source contributions aren't a measure of skill..."

Exactly. Because they're falsifiable. I'd personally rather work for people who value skill, not falsifiable data.

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Re:Become the most frequent committer on Github by Mamady on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @02:03PM (#6174445)
right but many companies try to take a shortcut - they think the best measure of skill is github.

To be fair, it's hard to qualify "skill", so shortcuts are very tempting.

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