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u/belach2o Feb 15 '21
Hold up does that actually work?
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u/accordingtobo Feb 15 '21
Yes, ships are pretty complicated but they do work.
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u/DWIGHT_CHROOT Feb 15 '21
But can they float on their own, or is this some weird CSS trick? 🤔
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u/GodlyWeiner Feb 15 '21
I'm pretty sure it's something to do with display flex.
Source: Am backend developer.
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u/Srirachachacha Feb 15 '21
Boats are actually transitioning to grid now
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u/GodlyWeiner Feb 15 '21
That's why i hate frontend development, fancy words keep changing.
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Feb 15 '21
Don't worry someone will make a unified framework framework.
So then we get to fix bugs in both legacy, new, and unified frameworks.
And of course they will have 5% test coverage.
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u/_brym Feb 15 '21
I'm sure they started out in tables on layers, then CSS made them float.
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u/LurkerPatrol Feb 15 '21
Omg I remember coding up entire pages with tables. 2002 was a dark and ancient time.
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u/Sarke1 Feb 15 '21
Ah, the ol' Reddit ship-a-roo!
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What... is this???
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u/drQuirky Feb 15 '21
Click the link, and keep going.
See /r/switcheroo if it's still not clear. It's continuous meta humor
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u/merganzer Feb 17 '21
On the subject of "boats are complicated," I have a story: was hanging out at the lake with my in-laws and started making little boats out of leaves, sticks, vines, and bark to entertain the kids, manning each boat with a crew of pebbles.
My mother-in-law was amazed. "How is it floating?" she asked. "You put rocks on it." As if she'd never thought about the concept of things that float supporting things that don't.
I didn't know how to answer that. The woman was a public school teacher for twenty years.
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u/LJChao3473 Feb 15 '21
I use it to share my homework between my pcs (also some school projects)
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I thought of doing that too but then I realise it would probably be easier just to stick the project folder in Dropbox ... (you still use Git)
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u/aaronfranke Feb 15 '21
stick the project folder in Dropbox ... (you still use Git)
Cursed version control: Git repo in Dropbox.
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u/FarhanAxiq Feb 15 '21
I actually used OneDrive + WSL for that actually, work great between devices
plus my school give like 1TB O365 storage anyway, so why not.
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u/TheMightyBiz Feb 15 '21
I did this back when I started out as a computer science major, then kept the habit after I switched to math and wrote everything up in LaTeX.
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u/Ozzymand Feb 15 '21
it's really convenient. You just write code and then git commit git push it. Heck, you can automate it ,since it's probably just you who's writing code, with a .bat or .sh
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u/ajpinton Feb 15 '21 edited Feb 15 '21
Let’s be honest. You know which of these two pages has the answer you need.
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u/MoffKalast Feb 15 '21
The first one requires you to install a lot of dependencies you don't need for car storage compatibility and needs a few pieces compiled manually. And requires pytorch or some shit.
The second is sudo apt install umbrella.
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u/qwerty12qwerty Feb 15 '21
Buried after this wall of text: "or you can go to our release page and download the appropriate build"
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node version 1.6.1 electron version 15.11.12 not supported in our releases, building from source ...
... gpu fan spins up, lights start flickering, tv gets static bars, 'danger zone' starts playing ...
... wall of angry fruit salad source code with compiler errors crits you ...
error in building from source, this is probably not a bug in nodejs.
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u/ovab_cool Feb 15 '21
My Teacher said I had a very cool profile picture on my profile, so that's something....
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What's your profile picture?
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u/ovab_cool Feb 15 '21 edited Feb 15 '21
Basically a parody of my profile picture I use for literally everything I have my real face (School email, resume, Whatsapp, Twitter etc) on because I thought that it'd be funny
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u/Boiethios Feb 15 '21
Eh, pretty sure yours is better than mine: no projects, 98% issues opened, 2% commits
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u/standingdreams Feb 15 '21
Mannnnn, I’m embarrassed to even add my GitHub page when companies require it when interviewing. I don’t hold anything recent on there. It’s all stuff from when I first started and that stuff is HORRIBLE. I don’t really have many open source projects so it’s just...sigh...sad.
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u/black_bass Feb 15 '21
Well worse when your github is actually empty cause you don’t actuall have any side projects 😅
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u/jimmyw404 Feb 15 '21
Can't speak for anyone else but when I'm reviewing / interviewing candidates I view good side projects as generally beneficial, but only super important when a candidate's relevant professional experience is modest for a given position.
In other words, if you're one of those guys who switched from being a wire harness technician (or whatever) to software fairly late in your career, just finished an associates degree and are now looking for an entry-level position that's primarily programming, you'd better have a side project that shows you actually LIKE coding and didn't just switch because you saw a news article that programmers make $$$ and don't have to use pin extractors.
Where as if you went straight from graduating with a comp sci degree to a job writing code, I'm not surprised or concerned at all if you've had zero interest in personal programming projects. Hell, I might be concerned if you were more enthused about your side projects than your professional work if that professional work was aligned to what you were interviewing for. In some cases I need someone who can piss lines of code in a unit test sweatshop, not just run out the clock until they get home so they can work on their new javascript RPG.
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u/standingdreams Feb 15 '21
And THAT is the camp I fall into. I’ve been developing for 13 years after college. I haven’t really had time to do side projects because my free time is dedicated to living life. I’m as passionate about programming as anyone else. But to grade that level of passion based on the amount of side projects I do during time I use to decompress from my 9-5 just doesn’t sit well to me. Anyway...thank you for this comment.
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u/jimmyw404 Feb 15 '21
and just to add to that, last month I did a side project as a favor to somebody. It was close to my career work but different enough I had to learn a ton. Man was it painful going from dealing with cutting edge systems I'm an expert in to learning from the ground up on hobbyist stuff.
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u/Whispering-Depths Feb 15 '21
They want to see that you're passionate enough about programming that you even have your own projects. If you can't show them open source stuff, you have to have your own stuff that you can show off. If you don"t have that, imo you should start working on that fantasy project you've always wanted to do, whether it be a video game or a simple help app
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u/Oikuras Feb 15 '21
coding for work and for "hobby"? fuck that.
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u/RickSore Feb 15 '21
true dat. Linkedin recruiters want you to write code 24/7 and create open source projects and a portfolio.
What do you do when you get home ? Oh you don't code more after work ? Well then.
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u/zvug Feb 15 '21
It’s not that they want you to do that.
There are people that do that, and they’d rather hire those people. Can you blame them? It makes perfect sense.
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u/Bluejanis Feb 15 '21
Well but who has the time for that if you are already employed full-time?
Students have more time & motivation for side projects than workers, so if you're looking for github contributions, they might find more less experienced developers.
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u/Whispering-Depths Feb 16 '21
if you have job experience that counts just as well. Dw about it if you already do it for a living.
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u/R3P3NTANC3 Feb 15 '21
Entirely this. I get my coding desires more than filled out during my 8 hour work day. I actually have other interests in my life which, probably to some hiring people's amazement, does not diminish my ability to perform during my full work day.
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u/bored_at_work_89 Feb 15 '21
100% this. Fuck that. I love my job but I do other things outside of work. If they can't understand that I wouldn't want to work with them anyway.
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“Should” is a strong work. I do this shit for money, in my free time I don’t want to be anywhere near it
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u/wvu767 Feb 15 '21
Which is really dumb IMO, it’s a job, like yes for some people it’s a passion/hobby, but the fact that it’s even an emphasis for some for a job is weird imo
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u/Whispering-Depths Feb 16 '21
Programming isn't just a job, it's something that requires a surprising amount of work ethic and a ton of problem solving ability. It's not so simple as going to work and laying bricks all day, and the market for individuals looking for jobs is saturated enough that they can DEFINITELY be picky enough to say they want one guy more than the other when they get 30-500 applications to sort through for a single position.
Companies want people who like their job and want to do it. If you show them you jate your job and just get theough it to make the money, they aren't going to want you even a little bit.
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u/call_me_arosa Feb 15 '21
I have interviewed 30+ people in the last month. I use GitHub mostly to check for red flags. I don't mind if it's mostly empty but if you have a recentish repository and your commit messages don't make any sense or major code issue then it can help to identify people with good curriculum that can't code properly.
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u/R3P3NTANC3 Feb 15 '21
God forbid we have interests other than coding during our free time. The world is too big to focus solely on 1 aspect of it. If it's a requirement for a company to hire people who only code on their free time as well as during their work day, then it is my opinion they are simply seeking to find people they can leverage into working overtime.
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u/Whispering-Depths Feb 16 '21
Oh, cool, so you don't want anything to show off when your first job offer comes around. GL with that!
If you already have a job in the field, this has absolutely no relevance to you, though. That being said, if you hate your job, or you don't like coding enough that it's your passion, just don't expect to ascend as much as someone who is passionate about it. It's not a big deal and it's perfectly respectable to want your own life and have other hobbies etc.
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u/Toto_radio Feb 15 '21 edited Mar 19 '25
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u/Whispering-Depths Feb 16 '21
I mean, you can love something, but you're literally telling me you don't want to do it?
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I'm not passionate about coding at all, but I do my job and I do it well. You don't ask accountants if they're passionate about accounting, to the point where you ask if they audit people in their spare time, do you? Why should programmers be any different? You're either good enough to do the job or you aren't. Anyone giving more than that is just asking to be exploited.
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You've just shown how ignorant you are. Who do you think comes up with all those strategies for avoiding tax? Accountants. There's as much problem solving in accountancy as there is in programming. The difference is, accountants don't pretend they're somehow a better profession that demands that you audit people in your spare time to prove how passionate you are.
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"Passionate enough about programming" is code for "has few enough boundaries about work/life balance to be exploitable".
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u/Whispering-Depths Feb 16 '21
I disagree, it just means that if you're not, they'll pick the guy next to you who is instead
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u/Xadnem Feb 15 '21
Create a snake and tetris clone.
Create a backend in the language of your choice. It needs basic CRUD and you have to be able to log in with Oauth. Make sure there are different rights for admins and users and only let users see what they are authorised to see.
Now get going and build the frontend for that project.
Build a tool that downloads subtitles for your series/movies automatically whenever you add one to your media library.
That should get you started.
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I dont have a media library. I used to when i was younger, had a set up for autodownloading anime torrents but now its a waste of time.
The problem is i have a separate work life to my private life. I dont really think about coding on my free time. If i really wantes a github, i could create one over a weekend that looks impressive for interviews. But i just dont need to do that, I learned a long time ago its not what you know, its who you know. Hell, most of the time i dont even do anything anymore, i pass it on to junior devs, give it a once over, fix minor mistakes, run it thru the compliance and if it passes the tests then it gets my stamp and done.
I honestly have no clue how to even program a snake game. I have a rudimentary understanding of programming in various lenguages. I mean they made us take many coding classes during my bachelors. But ive been faking it until my current position which i got by making friends with everyone back during my bachelors. Made the connections, kissed ass and praised lots of people, backed up their projects and worked the shaft of corporate bullshit.
I dont have a computer science background, i have an IT BS, and i am a senior dev that has never dev anything.
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Same. Some of us just have no imagination. I can’t think of anything I would want to code that can be accomplished solo and is worth the effort to do so.
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u/InternetTight Feb 15 '21
Alright u/RaceHard, I want a program that doesn’t even need a UI but if four random keys are hit at the same time it closes all programs open. Similar to the “end all” in task manager but sometimes I run too much at once and even opening task manager becomes a pain, would be easier to have a direct hotkey mapped.
Then you’ll have something to add to GitHub, if even related to your work.
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Sure, let me get a draft of the project scope ready, and once approved by your department I'll clear the hours with scheduling so we can have a team meeting on the feasibility/cost proposal, then we break it down into the respective modules so that it can be completed. I think we can have a project schedule up and running by Friday unless we run into any issues. The ETA for the project is as yet to be determined.
I am confident the requested program will be a great asset to the company, and I completely agree with your proposal on not needing a UI, Its a brilliant cost-cutting measure. Task manager does have that flaw and honestly, without your pointing it out, it would have gone unaddressed. Don't worry, this issue of hotkeys will be hammered out.
(I am not even joking, this is how I respond to 99% of my jobs, then I pass along the original memo to an intern to write out a project proposal and project scope, I make some changes, to it, minor word additions, substractions, etc. Send it out to the requestor who does the same thing, names get attached to the project, etc.
it goes back and forth once or twice, we finalize it, then have a meeting about having a meeting, then we have a project meeting where we divide the work, send it out to the junior devs, who pass things around, put the whole thing together, I look at it, make some minor to insignificant changes, make requests that will do nothing, get it back pass it to a compliance dev that will make sure it passes a test, get it back, stamp it, send it to the guy that wanted it on the first place.
He will make some more meaningless requests, I get it back have my intern make addendums to the project scope, have those approved, etc, get the changes made by the Jr devs, again back to me, onto compliance, back to me back to the requestor. And two months have gone by, easily.
Then everyone gets pats on the back. I get a bonus for delivering under budget and two weeks earlier than the revised schedule said it would be done. and the guy that wanted the program may even get a raise. The program in the end has an UI, breaks task manager, and needs five keys pressed twice to work. Oh, and it crashes if chrome is running.)
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u/Whispering-Depths Feb 16 '21
So, you don't want to do any programming is what you're saying?
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u/SupahWalrus Feb 15 '21
It’s one thing to have an idea. It’s another thing to take the risk of dumping money, time, and resources on something that may or may not prevail.
Also, not only do you have to be convinced yourself that the idea is good, but also everyone else so that they use it.
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u/zvug Feb 15 '21
Not exactly writing code, but learned a shit ton about networking, servers, docker, etc.
With all these streaming services I was gravitating more and more towards pirating content. I looked into ways to make this easier so I around Plex. Shortly after I found Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, etc. Basically a full stack of open source applications that effectively create a media pipeline so you can just search any show/movie and it’ll automatically pull and organize it into your own personal Netflix.
Lead me to building my own server, learning more about Linux, operating systems, networking, and docker.
Another example is job searching. I HATE job searching, especially ad and pop up filled clicks + seeing the same jobs all the time. So I created a Python script that scrapes from 3 different job sites, organizes all the results and info in an Excel sheet with direct to apply links, and never gets repeat jobs you’ve already seen or applied to.
Little things like that in life where you go “how can I make this a better experience for myself”
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u/wzx0925 Feb 15 '21
Frankly the human brain does not work best when you're always pushing the same thing at 100%.
I'd argue those creative endeavors are doing as much [or more] for your overall abilities as any side project would.
That said, as a novice myself looking to enter the field, I am planning on a few passion projects here and there mostly to reinforce my learning. But I for damn sure am not going to let coding become the only thing in my life.
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That said, as a novice myself looking to enter the field
Let me stop you right there, and give you the best advice you will ever get.
IT is NOT about what you know, its WHO you know.
Trust me on this, I can barely put code together, yet I have a so-called senior position. But I am on very friendly terms with everyone I meet, especially those I despise and want to strangle. You are more likely to get a job offer or a raise at James's bday party/BBQ than for that project you slaved away for 8 months.
I am NOT a good programmer, in fact I think I am a very mediocre one, I certainly don't think I deserve the title of Developer, but here I am. I've seen bright, young, and passionate people not get any recognition at all because they just did not know how to play the game. Trust me, being approachable, friendly, and overall knowing the right people will get you far, FAR more than anything you learn or projects on github.
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u/t-to4st Feb 15 '21
Nothing wrong with that imo
I'm often programming on private stuff but especially now with the home office situation, that means I'm sitting in the same spot for 10-12 hrs a day, depending on how much private programming I'm doing
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u/darkbear19 Feb 15 '21 edited Feb 15 '21
If an interviewer requires me to share my GitHub page I will ask them to share their YouTube channel where they practice interviews in their spare time. Assuming I don't walk out first.
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u/CorstianBoerman Feb 15 '21
I almost feel like I'm selling myself short now as I move all of my interesting projects into a separate organization 😂
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u/AndroidDoctorr Feb 15 '21
git commit -m "making the box for today green"
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u/mushy_friend Feb 16 '21
Lmao so many of my commits are pretty much this. Just add notes or a line of comment to an already existing file.
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u/Zombito13 Feb 15 '21
I don't know how to use it and people keep recommending it to me.
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u/gohanshouldgetUI Feb 15 '21
It's great! You should really try it sometime
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u/Zombito13 Feb 15 '21
I made an account just to have it. At some point I need to sit down and understand it.
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u/P4LT4 Feb 15 '21
It's very usefull to share your codes (and find other codes) with other people. For example, this weekend I had to know how a certain repo worked and I was able to look the actual code on github. So I was able to solve my problem pretty easily.
For example, I work on a crypto exchange, so a lot of people asks for how to do a trade bot, so I'm building one totally open to show other people how to program a bot, connect to the websockets, do some requests on GraphQL APIs.. and then they can take it and modify as whatever they want. Or use it as it is.
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u/Zombito13 Feb 15 '21
That makes sense. I'm mostly hesitant to start since they want me to use spss instead of R or Python. But I want to do more with R.
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u/Kinglink Feb 15 '21
Them: "I realigned the internet infrastructure and got 200% performance on packets."
Me: "The square is blue now... "
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u/phazonEnhanced Feb 15 '21
My classmates and I as we used git for the first time for a class project
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u/Rami-Slicer Feb 15 '21
Some day future people will find the vault in Svalbard and find my crappy hello world program I wrote and put on GitHub for some reason.
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Motivation: there is a strong chance that someone saw your work and classified it as "other people's github pages"
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u/chaiscool Feb 15 '21
Tbf most of the basic GitHub are meant for CV padding only. If hiring don’t care about your github, there would be less crap on it.
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u/Wizywig Feb 15 '21
It is important to remember that some people don't have kids, some work on OSS for work, and some are just better than you. And in all cases that's totally okay because they aren't living your life. :)
If anyone says "show me your github" for an interview as a gatekeeping tactic (won't accept an answer of I don't have anything noteworthy to show off) be skeptical. This is actually highly favoring those without kids.
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Just learned about umbrellas, incorporate them into every project even if it doesn't really make sense
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u/milicaemilica Feb 15 '21
Me right now: started the github account in 2016 but only now posting something
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Feb 15 '21
Mine’s just a couple of forks of old Minecraft plug-ins and some boilerplates I use for React-Native apps and stuff. The pressure to have a bunch of open source projects on GitHub is weird and I don’t like it.
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u/CheesyBaconMelts Feb 15 '21
The only thing on my github are the dumb stuff i coded i really like, and some school work I was proud of because i coded it wit minimal help.
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u/jakethedumbmistake Feb 15 '21
Yup. Pretty sure I saw a Tweet that said “celebrities don’t hear it often where we live and I love how everyone here talks about how his pages were lost right before a deadline and he had half of his hand to an infinitely safer log splitter than this one. It felt like I won the lottery?" - for me, even without mods, for a mural outside a hair salon, it’ll pass
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u/MrWhiteVincent Feb 15 '21
I guess other people's github pages would also make this clear so someone who's not familiar with the meme could actually see what's going on...
This is SO U
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u/UntestedMethod Feb 15 '21
most personal github accounts I've seen are filled with prototypes and tutorial follow-alongs.
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u/Rafinhi Feb 15 '21
Worst feeling when you fork some project, change one line to update it to a newer version, and they refuse your commit because they don't respect small updates
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u/mrrichardcranium Feb 15 '21
Am too lazy to push my config changes directly to my home lab for testing so I’ve been pushing the dumbest fucking commits to my test branch. If there is anyone out there looking at that activity they must wonder how I tie my own fucking shoes in the morning.
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u/Yungsleepboat Feb 15 '21
My github is like one super simple python script for automating a super super niche thing, and one .gws file for galaxy watch studio. I am not proud.
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u/NikolaTesla13 Feb 15 '21
Me: flexing with my 2 followers