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Re:GitHub is not your new résumé by hackula1 on Friday August 23, 2013 @03:24PM (#6265764)
The one beef I have with the "my github page is my resume" meme is that many developers work in spaces where they do not have the ability to work with open source much. I personally have years of work checked into github in private repos, and if I showed it to a potential employer I could be sued into oblivion. Many of us work on very sensitive systems with loads of legal walls around them. Sure, I contribute to OSS in my spare time, but my public github profile is not even close to a fair representation of my professional work.
Re:GitHub is not your new résumé by WestCoastJustin on Friday August 23, 2013 @04:08PM (#6265976)
What is the actual beef though? That you are at a perceived disadvantage to someone who has a public profile?
Re:GitHub is not your new résumé by ctdonath on Friday August 23, 2013 @08:52PM (#6267090)
Beef?

"Show me your work."

"I can't, it's owned by other companies."

"No job then. There's the door."

And so someone who wrote a million dollars worth of software (actually got paid for) gets beat to a job by someone whose work nobody will pay for.

Yeah, beef.