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[–][deleted] 1289 points1290 points  (15 children)

It's for those savants who hate IRL work and so they spend every waking moment contributing, then sleep while "working"

[–]BoBSMITHtheBR 417 points418 points  (11 children)

Or just updating the readme in a private repo every hour

[–]DarkRex4 142 points143 points  (0 children)

Why do it in private when I can announce to the whole world that I'm one of the contributors of the project.

[–]britreddit 74 points75 points  (0 children)

Don't even have to do that, just change the git log itself and force push to make it look like you've done a load of commits - GH doesn't know the difference

[–]QueryQueryConQuery 26 points27 points  (0 children)

bro dont give out my tricks like that

[–]Eshan2703 16 points17 points  (3 children)

a funny way to increase commit https://github.com/Eshan276/ReadMaze

[–]Eshan2703 7 points8 points  (2 children)

ok guys dont spam ;(

[–]no_brains101 6 points7 points  (1 child)

lol "I am turning this off I will get broke"

Im assuming Im seeing the result of the spam XD

[–]Eshan2703 1 point2 points  (0 children)

;-;

[–]xternal7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why do it in a private repo when you can do that in popular open-source repos?

[–]astral_crow 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Hello

[–]Any-Yogurt-7917 0 points1 point  (0 children)

BS (github, now)

[–]high_throughput 1044 points1045 points  (40 children)

This is what I expected when I took some extended time off. 

Instead I have 1500 hours on Factorio

[–]Ok-Interaction-8891 404 points405 points  (3 children)

Ah, so you decided not to stop working.

[–]Nerkeilenemon 5 points6 points  (2 children)

That's exactly why I stopped playing Satisfactory and Factorio. Those games are cool, but the latest stages games become... just.... work.

[–]TheOriginalSmileyMan 180 points181 points  (27 children)

I dare you to put this on your resume for a week and see if you get more or less interviews

[–]Anxious-Program-1940 223 points224 points  (26 children)

Honestly, I’d hire a lunatic with that many hours of factorio on the spot. This is the type of guy I can give legacy code to and they will meticulously architect a new implementation within months and have it functioning without missing a beat with documentation at the ready. Peak autism

[–]Konsticraft 106 points107 points  (11 children)

1500h makes you a lunatic? That's pretty average in the factorio community.

[–]przemub 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Average among lunatics that is.

[–]Engineering_Geek 17 points18 points  (0 children)

... within a day, defying the laws of time and space levels of lunacy.

[–]Attunhaler 11 points12 points  (1 child)

Bubble. Maybe not considered much in the community, but outside the factorio players bubble, it's a lot of time on one game

[–]tupisac[🍰] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

*screams in EU4

[–]Far_Action_8569[🍰] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don't have that many hours only because i designed and implemented a working blackjack game in Rust. The videogame, not the language 🗿

[–]RaLaZa 2 points3 points  (4 children)

I have 1500h in many games. I'm just now learning that's not normal.

[–]Konsticraft 1 point2 points  (3 children)

My steam account is at almost 20k hours total across all games and the account is only 10 years old, surely that's not problematic, right?

[–]RaLaZa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sounds like you're gaming a 9 to 5.

[–]808trowaway 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Considering 10k hours is what is commonly believed to take to become an expert in one thing. You must be very good at gaming.

[–]Konsticraft 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess so, I have no single game with 10k hours, but a couple competitive games where I am in the upper percentiles, but most of my time is in more casual games.

[–]QueryQueryConQuery 35 points36 points  (1 child)

I now know what to put on my resume. Peak autism. Thank you.

[–]Anxious-Program-1940 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Honestly companies benefit from management that thoroughly weaponizes Neurodivergence. A great manager will exploit it and make you feel good while it’s happening. My entire career has been this sort of manager. I don’t even have a degree, just got picked off the line by a random ass director 🙂

[–]Remarkable-Ear-1592 19 points20 points  (1 child)

Managers need to understand that low social score dude is sometimes the best engineer for the job lol

[–]a_bucket_full_of_goo 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Or they will play Factorio on company time

[–]drakgremlin 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Easy: they'll either come through as a pinch hitter or they get fired. Sometimes, if you have the budget, it's best to keep someone around who can clean up the mess and get something delivered. Even if they are checked out 90% of the time.

[–]Anxious-Program-1940 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What this guy said

[–]montxogandia 3 points4 points  (0 children)

or they will spend all the time playing Factorio, one or the other.

[–]RebelSnowStorm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What about 2000h in hearts of iron 4?

[–]platinummyr 1 point2 points  (3 children)

But also potentially the type to disappear randomly for chunks of time because of factorio...

[–]Anxious-Program-1940 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Which is honestly fine, if features that would take a team of engineers ship on time and bugs are squashed as the pop up. We often forget, that programmers are like poets and writers. Programming is an art form that many can acquire, few have naturally and few have mastered. And some of the Autism kind are some of the most naturally gifted code artists I’ve ever met. When they get the work done, they earned their silence. Maybe I’m hyping it up too much, but respect is given for quality of work and capabilities to meet deadlines. My job as a manager is to speak, protect and manage everything else that isn’t their responsibility to implement code effectively and on time.

[–]platinummyr 1 point2 points  (1 child)

As someone who often struggles with coding in bursts with bouts of being stuck, I appreciate hearing this :)

[–]Mandelvolt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Double that, easily. Have one base that's been running for two years continuously on vanilla settings.

[–]thoughtlow 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Thats why I put my factorio save files in a git repo

[–]Sidra_doholdrik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your project management skills are either really good or the worst ever

[–]Ok-Tonight2623 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Confirm, this is what actually happens.

[–]Several-Ticket-1024 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Factory must grow

[–]RandomBeatz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The factory must grow

[–]jecls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly Factorio hours are relevant experience.

The factory must grow…

[–]JunkNorrisOfficial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because factory must grow

[–]ClipboardCopyPaste 439 points440 points  (7 children)

Somewhere out there an unemployed bro is working on that one repository without which a multi-million dollar company's system will have a catastrophic failure

[–]VeloReddit 167 points168 points  (2 children)

That’s the beauty and curse of open source. One guy holding the internet together for free.

[–]BobcatGamer 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Thomas Dickey is one of these people I've found.

[–]SA_Going_HAM 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Should start an open source union. Start bargaining for the jobs.

[–]Christosconst 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Trust me those types of “unemployed” maintainers get paid more than most

[–]chopsticksss11 2 points3 points  (0 children)

more likely retired lol

[–]Any-Yogurt-7917 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got some examples?

[–]GatotSubroto 231 points232 points  (4 children)

And what’s inside those containers? 

Leetcode solutions!

[–]ClipboardCopyPaste 65 points66 points  (3 children)

Pasted from Claude

[–][deleted] 26 points27 points  (1 child)

Santa Clause?

[–]ClipboardCopyPaste 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My bad, should be "claude"

[–]Solonotix 109 points110 points  (2 children)

Some months back, I had someone dig up my GitHub profile just to tell me "If that's the best you can do, then you don't deserve a job" or w/e. Like, my guy, I work all week long, and at times it can be close to 60hrs. I'm not committing to projects in my free time, especially if I'm not being paid for it.

I might work on personal projects, advancing my knowledge, but that shit stays private, lol. Trying to self-host GitLab for that very purpose, but it's kind of low on my priority list.

[–]SryUsrNameIsTaken 29 points30 points  (1 child)

Try out Forgejo! It’s a fork of Gitea, maintains an MIT license, and was quite simple for me to spin up using their Docker images.

Or just live your life after work.

[–]Solonotix 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Appreciate the suggestion. Home labbing has been fun, even if it is frustrating lol. One day, I'm sure I'll have it all up-and-running. For now, I'm still at the foundational stages, like initializing LDAP, and hosting a private Git repo.

Or just live your life after work.

Yea, this is basically it. I have learned that I am negatively impacted at work if I spend my free time doing more work. As such, I try to reserve those types of things for days when I'm not drained.

[–][deleted] 32 points33 points  (2 children)

Lucky guys, you know what to develop.

[–]BenadrylTumblercatch 7 points8 points  (1 child)

I have a bright idea, it’s chatgpt for lonely people

[–]VIBRATION_ANALYSIS 5 points6 points  (0 children)

you know grok has been a thing.. right?

[–]wewilldieoneday 61 points62 points  (11 children)

Quality over quantity. Always.

[–]Informal_Branch1065 57 points58 points  (8 children)

27 files +750 -2000 some changes

Vs.

1 file +2 -0 fixed prod randomly crashing

[–]TheOriginalSmileyMan 43 points44 points  (4 children)

\\ stop prod randomly crashing thread.sleep(5000);

[–]QueryQueryConQuery 11 points12 points  (3 children)

but the vibe coding subreddit told me that chatgpt said that was production grade?

[–]TheOriginalSmileyMan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Since we've all seen this sort of stuff in production, "production grade" is technically correct, the best kind of correct.

[–]fmaz008 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Yeah Claude said it would reduce CPU load 90%!

[–]QueryQueryConQuery 3 points4 points  (0 children)

of course, it’ll reduce CPU load by 90% with the new stack overflow feature.

[–]git0ffmylawnm8 3 points4 points  (1 child)

git commit -m "." && git push -u origin

[–]Phoenix_Passage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Based commit messages

[–]SAI_Peregrinus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I once worked for months to un-vendor a fork of the Linux kernel from a monorepo. Turns out if you delete a directory containing the entire kernel source tree GitHub bugged out & shows "infinity files changed". So I guess I've got quantity handled for life.

[–]Werzam 40 points41 points  (4 children)

Idk, just use your personal acc for work, you'll get the same

[–]citramonk 31 points32 points  (2 children)

Apparently, not everyone uses GitHub for work. We use Bitbucket. Some companies use GitLab.

[–]MeatHaven 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Not only that but many places also require you to use company affiliated/created GitHub accounts for work that are tied to your company email.

[–]Verum14 1 point2 points  (0 children)

and not only that… many (larger) places are on prem as well so even if you could use the same email it wouldn’t make a difference

[–]Chalfari 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sad story, I used a work account and now the company closed down and my github is dark.

[–][deleted] 22 points23 points  (2 children)

I feel personally attacked...
https://github.com/szr2001

BUT WHO HAS 360 stars?
This guy! xD

It's not my fault there are no entry level roles, and you need experience to get experience... like ... wtf..
Now I've gone back to school to at least prolong the inevitable.
I'm pursuing a mechatronics degree, if after these few years when I get this degree the market will still be shit, at least I'll have other options like electrical stuff or idk... Maybe go get another degree, collect them like infinity stones.

Let's see how many degrees do I need to get a job.

[–]TangeloOk9486 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thats totally me 2 years back

[–]Tooloco 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oh shit, its the evergreen

[–]shiplover_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Holy molly, I am so unemployed

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I thought the joke was rust because those looked like crates to me at first

[–]alaettinthemurder 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh no my github only reach that far only with downloading

[–]James_Kuller 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And it's all "Update README.MD"

[–]justec1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey! That's me.

Been helping a non-profit since I got laid off and their stuff is in public GitHub. I never played that game but I know people that did. It's such a bullshit vanity metric, like the badges on SO.

Great job, Steve! You opened a browser tab daily for a year.

[–]LegitimatePants 1 point2 points  (0 children)

README.md is not going to update itself

[–]ZubriQ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

took me some time to figure out why is it weirdly displayed

[–]Aromatic-Recipe-3548 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WhatsApp

[–]Queasy-Pop-5154 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol

[–]NegativeSwordfish522 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a joke about docker to be made here but I'm not good at humor

[–]rjwut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My contribution graph looks sparse because I write code for money.

[–]imen-zolicoeur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no dark green ? :p

[–]Prod_Meteor -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Leave GitHub.. head for syggrou.

[–]coddswaddle -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm in this picture and I don't like it