{"items": [{"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/819341351242?comment_id=819346765392", "anchor": "fb-819346765392", "service": "fb", "text": "* My resume has a 'curated portfolio' section, where I link my favorite open source contributions -- the projects I've been given commit flag on, the nontrivial patch I landed in Clojure, etc.
* I think Github could help out a lot here. If people are using Github as a resume, Github could provide tools to optimize what your profile shows potential employers. You could pick your favorite repos, or your favorite pull requests you've opened, and highlight them. Hell, you could put the rest of your resume in there too, while you're at it. Hell, they could even make this a 'premium' feature and get some extra revenue from it.
* I sometimes wonder if the above wouldn't work because \"your resume is now GitHub\" kinda has an undercurrent to it of \"we don't want to hire some tryhard asshole who *wants to get hired*, we just want to hire someone who's ~passionate about programming~\" (I don't like this, and I agree it has disparate impacts, as you mentioned, but I think it might be a thing) and tools for profile optimization would interfere with that.", "timestamp": "1476930862"}, {"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/819341351242?comment_id=819346765392&reply_comment_id=819346920082", "anchor": "fb-819346765392_819346920082", "service": "fb", "text": "→ See: http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html", "timestamp": "1476930948"}, {"author": "Buck", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/819341351242?comment_id=819346765392&reply_comment_id=819369390052", "anchor": "fb-819346765392_819369390052", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Github does let you pick your favorite repos for your profile page.", "timestamp": "1476937311"}, {"author": "Lauren", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/819341351242?comment_id=819348082752", "anchor": "fb-819348082752", "service": "fb", "text": "I think github resumes are more complicated than that, though I super agree that the incentives are likely to make weird bad things happen.
When I'm reading a github account for hiring reasons, lack of a github resume has a sublinear effect - it doesn't look bad to not have stuff on github, it looks bad to have stuff on github and have it reveal unawareness of bad thinking. lack of stuff on github just means not adding certainty, plus some implication that you haven't contributed to public things, which like, whatever, as long as you do have code to show.
I don't know if this is how other people read them. I imagine not. But because I'm not looking for code so much as I am looking for what the code reveals about the person's abilities, I don't so much mind having shitty code as long as it's shitty code written with understanding that it's shitty. If I see php \"played straight\" on someone's github, that's a negative, and it's something I'm going to ask them about to make sure they understand the behaviors of php reasonably well, or that they've moved on, or that they can move on.
Github has recently added a feature, at my and I infer many other's requests, that lets you choose which repositories are shown as your primary ones. that seems like it's likely to make a big difference in incentives about this, because it allows you to say \"these are the ones I want to show off. the garbage bin is over there.\"
That still doesn't help if someone who doesn't understand code is reading, but it does seem like it decreases the incentive to hide bad code.", "timestamp": "1476931325"}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/819341351242?comment_id=819355268352", "anchor": "fb-819355268352", "service": "fb", "text": "I don't think most employers will ding you for the bad stuff, as long as their attention is drawn to the good stuff. So I don't think it's a transparency issue. It's a matter of directing their attention where you want it. Maybe GitHub should help with that more.", "timestamp": "1476932252"}, {"author": "John", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/819341351242?comment_id=819366880082", "anchor": "fb-819366880082", "service": "fb", "text": "\"the work you did a year or more ago couldn't possibly still be relevant today\"
HATE.", "timestamp": "1476935584"}, {"author": "J\u00e9rome", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/819341351242?comment_id=819366880082&reply_comment_id=819538406342", "anchor": "fb-819366880082_819538406342", "service": "fb", "text": "→ SO MUCH. This sentiment is the cancer of software development.", "timestamp": "1477023878"}, {"author": "Josh", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/819341351242?comment_id=819368072692", "anchor": "fb-819368072692", "service": "fb", "text": "I think this is pretty true in bioinformatics; for every chunk of really cool interesting code, there are many chunks of code to parse other programs' output, or draw pretty pictures using convoluted R scripts...", "timestamp": "1476936411"}, {"author": "Gordon", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/819341351242?comment_id=819370657512", "anchor": "fb-819370657512", "service": "fb", "text": "Well said Jeff. I agree.", "timestamp": "1476938011"}, {"author": "Elizabeth", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/819341351242?comment_id=819432239102", "anchor": "fb-819432239102", "service": "fb", "text": "Do companies really wanted to see nothing but polished code? I consider hacky but functional programs like the heat map highly correlated with desirable programmers?", "timestamp": "1476975472"}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/819341351242?comment_id=819432239102&reply_comment_id=819432518542", "anchor": "fb-819432239102_819432518542", "service": "fb", "text": "→ No, existence of unpolished code is fine. I think this advice is misleading.", "timestamp": "1476975635"}, {"author": "J\u00e9rome", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/819341351242?comment_id=819540492162", "anchor": "fb-819540492162", "service": "fb", "text": "Incidentally, I'll definitely be using draw_heatmap for a project I'm working on. Probably won't make it into the final product but it will be useful for exploration! So thanks for leaving your messy code up.", "timestamp": "1477024222"}, {"author": "Antonio", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/114707656177875382272", "anchor": "gp-1477270976568", "service": "gp", "text": "In my experience, most recruiters do not seem capable of distinguishing between projects I've created and those I have merely forked.", "timestamp": 1477270976}]}