r/ProgrammerHumor • u/LAKnerd • 1d ago

Meme doItForTheHub

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/LAKnerd 1d ago

When looking for jobs, I've had a lot more interest in my GitHub than in my degree progress.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/LAKnerd 1d ago

Right now I'm five classes in and haven't published my work properly. My GitHub, however, shows what my solutions look like to various problems, along with experience.

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u/hurley_chisholm 15h ago

More journals are requiring submission of the code used in any computational models in order to raise the bar on replicability. GitHub is free and widely-used.

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u/GSDragoon 1d ago

Just create a private org/repo that you spam commits to

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u/CarlCarlton 1d ago

Whenever I see people with several hundreds of private contributions in a month, I picture them as hundreds of "Updated README" with one character that gets added and removed every 30 minutes.

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u/rntdev 1d ago

If I do more than 3 commits per day, it’s usually not a good sign.. 

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u/LAKnerd 20h ago

Building out new IaC stuff in my lab is the only time I push more than once or twice daily.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/LAKnerd 20h ago

Because I'm also 8 years into my career and have bills to pay. Working full time and going to school is a thing people do.

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u/theChaosBeast 1d ago

What do you mean by PhD class?

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u/FrosteeSwurl 1d ago

I presume they mean a class taken in pursuit of obtaining a PhD.

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u/theChaosBeast 1d ago

Who is taking classes for a PhD? You're a scientist doing research on new things???

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u/FrosteeSwurl 1d ago

Ive never heard of a PhD that doesn’t require taking at least a few classes alongside research. Not nearly as many, but a handful of classes throughout the program.

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u/theChaosBeast 1d ago

Classes for what? You have already obtained one or multiple university degrees. Your task is to create knowledge, not to take classes?

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u/FrosteeSwurl 1d ago

The classes focus on advanced topics that discuss the more cutting edge of research or a topic. You can always learn more.

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u/theChaosBeast 1d ago

Yeah but habe finished university. You are supposed to do it without someone else telling you how to

Edit: I just googled and learned that an American PhD actually is another study course just with a research part... Like wtf, and you are telling me this is similar to European doctoral degrees??

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u/FrosteeSwurl 1d ago

There are experts in certain areas and they can share knowledge. It’s not an intro to programming class where the instructor walks you through every topic.

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u/theChaosBeast 1d ago

I added an edit to my previous comment since I learned something. Thanks for pointing me to my lack of knowledge.

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u/thee_gummbini 18h ago

Hell yeah! great recovery. Next time you can spend less time insisting on something without knowing and learn even faster!

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u/ultraSsak 1d ago

Github = microsoft.

I actually don't upload anything there.

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u/LAKnerd 20h ago

I have my own hosted Gitea for my active k8s/flux config files, GitHub for archival and resume stuff

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u/MXRCO007 16h ago

Sadly true but the majority of developers are on it, I’m a star whore and just mirror from my personal forgejo to GitHub

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u/me_myself_ai 16h ago

GitLab is so superior. Come to the light side, friends. We have AnnasArchive, and cookies!

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u/shrieksrewind 1d ago

Who needs a PhD when your GitHub contribution graph looks like a Minecraft farm? 

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u/freestew 2h ago

Just say you don't use AI for religious reasons and quote the Pope

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u/soelsome 1d ago

Is this a flex?

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u/LAKnerd 1d ago

For a little context, I'm job hunting and a good portfolio is a great thing to have.

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u/Fadamaka 1d ago

People hiring for the AI keyword usually doesn't even know what is the difference between training AI and prompting LLMs.