[gamechangr]

small comment:

Sometimes I like to see activity (on Github) for more than the last two months. It makes me wonder if someone is really passionate about building things, or is just looking for easy employment.

You did a good job of addressing that in your HN post, but I would bet that a few companies are holding that (good activity, but only fairly recently) against you.

Good news, that problem will fix itself with another two months or so of activity.

[zerr]

What's wrong with `looking for easy employment`? I mean, we know tech interviews suck. So if there any other way to workaround this thing and show to the prospective employers what you can do (assuming that you're willing to sacrifice your time), why not? Especially, given that `github is your CV` meme, which is fading nowadays.

[collyw]

I have a very empty github profile, because most of my work is in house. Plus personal projects have the potential to make some money, plus, it seems a bit of a security risk dumping everything, including settings files with passwords into github.

[taurenk]

Thanks. It's funny, I actually started all of this NOT using Git. I wasn't until I was about 3 months into the Python Geocoder I mentioned about did i start to use Git!

[gamechangr]

Yeah man, many people do that. It's just hard because maybe 50 resumes come through and you breeze through twenty githubs before writing down who to call back.

Sometimes -- that's all you get ( a twenty second look), so make sure to explain your story in the cover letter.

[M8]

That's great, at least those 30+ will be safe from working in your "passionate" company. I mean you just have to open-source everything you are working on these days, right? And who cares about BitBucket, only mainstream things are "cool".

PS: can you point me to Google's latest search algorithm on GitHub? Thanks.

[lemmon7]

What about if everything is in private repositories?

[gamechangr]

I assume this was for an entry level position. Look at the OP github above and you would assume that as well.

They usually would LOVE to have the problem of all "private" repositories.

Of course github isn't everything, but quite important for your first gig.