> Probably less than 1% of developers have GitHub repos
And if you count Google Code, Bitbucket, Sourceforge? Github alone has "2.1 million users hosting over 3.7 million repositories". What's your source for your statistic?
> When all of your work is online, it suggests you are not spending much time contributing value to whoever is employing you.
Or that you enjoy writing code so much that you do it in your free time.
> Companies that can't find developers often have bizarre and useless criteria such as "must have GitHub repository" ... none of which is correlated with ability.
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> Probably less than 1% of developers have GitHub repos
And if you count Google Code, Bitbucket, Sourceforge? Github alone has "2.1 million users hosting over 3.7 million repositories". What's your source for your statistic?
> When all of your work is online, it suggests you are not spending much time contributing value to whoever is employing you.
Or that you enjoy writing code so much that you do it in your free time.
> Companies that can't find developers often have bizarre and useless criteria such as "must have GitHub repository" ... none of which is correlated with ability.
Source?
He has as many sources as the original article - experience.