Ask HN: GitHub vs. self-hosted forges – What's your first impression?
When hiring or searching for open-source code, you often come across developers who host their projects exclusively on GitHub. Sometimes you may find individuals with a minimal social presence (no GitHub, LinkedIn, etc.) but who self-host their own forge, blog, or projects.
Does your impression of the person change at all? If so, how?
If we are talking about two otherwise unknown but equally impressive candidates and one said "here is my portfolio on github/gitlab/bitbucket" and the other said "here is my portfolio on some random domain" I would hire the first. I would not likely even visit the second candidate's portfolio.
Implies a fair amount of bias towards, "I'm just here for the job" integrity and self ownership/authorship is not my thing. Just the type of short term employee a manager would be looking for.
Not a lot of risk or integrity for ether party, is kinda baked in to the culture. It's not just programming.
Let's call them open source HOA's
Implies a fair amount of bias towards, "I'm just here for the job" integrity and self ownership/authorship is not my thing. Just the type of short term employee a manager would be looking for. Not a lot of risk or integrity for ether party, is kinda baked in to the culture. It's not just programming. Let's call them open source HOA's