It depends on what kind of job you are looking for. Obviously, a GitHub account would be irrelevant if you aspire to be a professional cook or a pilot, but disregarding those obvious exceptions, I could very well imagine network administrators who have never read, written, or otherwise shown any interest in code. But yeah, it's definitely a negative character trait not to have shown interest in programming.
Why specifically GitHub, though? While I do have an account, I don't really use it that much. I favour git over cvs/svn/mercurial, but I've my own server to push against. There's a certain social aspect with GitHub, I suppose, but you could (and I do) get that via mailing lists and forums. My guess is that "GitHub" was short and tweet-friendly, and that "Not having shown any interest in programming whatsoever is like not showing any typographical interest whatsoever when crafting your résumé" was a bit too long to put in a tweet. On 27 August 2013 21:55, Reinier Battenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Someone I have in extremely high esteem tweeted this. > > Of the developers on this list that do or do not have a github account: do you > agree with this? Are there other ways you can prove you are a serious > developer? > > > > > -- > rgds, > > Reinier Battenberg > Director > Mountbatten Ltd. > www.mountbatten.net > tel: +256 758 801749 > twitter: @batje > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any > way. _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
