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by godelski 2653 days ago
Repositories are public for a lot of reasons, a lot of which are not "I want to show this off to a potential employer". Let me give some good reasons, that's not an exhaustive list.

- It is the default.

- Free private repos are new and no one is going back and making things private.

- If you are working with someone it is many times easier to make it public.

- You want to share code with someone, public is easier than making them a collaborator.

Honestly I don't think a lot of people, if any, are reading the stuff I have on GitHub.

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I put my things public on GPL out of principle, because there are some people playing those games, so I want to provide all necessary freedoms to them - even if nobody is actually interested in exercising those freedoms, because well, those are shitty jam games.