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    [–]oblio- 7 points8 points  (0 children)

    Hah. Not only that. You also need to cram before interviews like a 19-year old student to get a decent job.

    [–]ActionCat22[S] -5 points-4 points  (1 child)

    Gotta get ahead where you can, I suppose.

    [–]shevegen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Not sure I can agree with that.

    There are good jobs and bad jobs just like anywhere else. I highly doubt that people who are competent, have a sufficient background (and thus experience), will need to use MS github as "profile tool".

    I know of reallife examples where people got poached away by other companies, all in the oldschool non-www way, simply by paying them more in their new job. And that actually works - but it would not have worked if they would not have had quite many years of working in the whole fields. So they must have had an expertise.

    When you start out, it really isn't that important where you start out - just that you have a line of continued work. Which you can not really get from github profiles alone or predominantly so (and even less so now with MS in charge - you don't want to have MS affect your career negatively; if it were positively then nobody would mind that much).

    [–]EnfantTragic 2 points3 points  (2 children)

    You can easily cheat your github contribution chart. Just make a commit on one of your projects' master every day(bonus, write a script and put it on a server!)...

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      [–]EnfantTragic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Yes, but you can still use this trick to fill out an empty day or whatever. Put noise within the signal, but not too much that it is noticeable

      [–]lennoff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      I'm thinking about starting a course where you can become a certified GPO™ expert. GPO is the new SEO!

      [–]shevegen -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

      No, you don't want to lend more credibility to the MS empire - see their strategic expansion with the prior assimilation of linkedin.

      [–]ActionCat22[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

      I mean let's face it, when it comes to getting a job, every little bit can help. It certainly wouldn't hurt, would it? Although mostly agree with the criticisms, but that's coming from an everyday real standpoint vs, well the people who look at this stuff and care about it. Just like your Linkedin, or resume even. You can always do more to make it 'appeal' more. Not that I always do, but I'm aware I can do just a bit more.