I was slightly confused when I opened this link. I was pretty sure I didn't click the "Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever " link which also was on the front page at the time.
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?
Personally I like to fuck with people who take themselves too seriously, and those companies -- companies that put "fully public, open-source contributions" at the top of their list of desirable (but not mandatory) job postings -- are certainly full of themselves.
Is there a way to tell the most frequent committer on Github? Maybe if there is Github could award a prize every month—a gift certificate to a pizza place maybe?
I like it, not because I like cheating but because I think it exemplifies how bullshit this notion that more commits == more commited is, and how it encourages people pulling shit all the time. Even Linus is mad about it xD
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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?
Exactly. Because they're falsifiable. I'd personally rather work for people who value skill, not falsifiable data.
To be fair, it's hard to qualify "skill", so shortcuts are very tempting.
Do you want to work for a company that buys this lie and make them believe you are a code machine?
That lie WILL bite you in the back some day.
(in secret of course)