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by mattgreenrocks 4599 days ago
What's the difference of motivation? Genuine interest in craft v. vain self-image cultivation?
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Right. If the people combing through GitHub profiles are not, themselves, technically proficient (i.e. recruiters) then we will find people being rewarded for quantity over quality. Taken to an extreme, this can lead to communities that become, in effect, echo chambers where developers are re-re-reinventing the wheel to pad out their GitHub profiles instead of endeavoring to create something interesting and new.