I like your opinion (probably because I'm biased of this trend as well).
Unfortunately, we live in the world where people eat people.
For those who have large number of repos and code written in GitHub, they would rejoice when they see this. Just like Haskell people would feel excited when they see the number of jobs for Haskell programmers out there cannot be met with the supply.
These people will push this idea forward because it is for their best interest (only a few who would keep the purity of the community).
At the end of the day, we're all human beings so we have greeds and egos. We want to have high salary or challenging work or the best work place/culture/free-food and we work to achieve that. Part of the work is to have GitHub repos apparently (used to be StackOverflow karma).
Some hackers dislike the notion of getting interesting jobs/deals because of your rolodex because that would suggest sales/marketing/licking butt mentality. They also dislike it because communication (with real people, not over the internet) is not their strongest suit.
For those who disagree with this wave/bubble, we should create our own. We should push our own ideology. We should figure out how not to be attracted with this wave/bubble.
... or we can stand up and be an entrepreneur (one option, not the only option) and say to hell with this job-seeker mob-mentality?
Exactly. All of it. If you don't like it, fix it. If you can't fix it, replace it (or ignore it). Just because some companies only want to hire people that write code 24/7 doesn't mean all companies have to. And there are some of us that work in closed-source or secure code that simply don't have a public codebase. And an occasional few that are contractually prohibited from writing public code in their "off" time.
(Does having a large codebase freely available make evaluating a potential hire easier? No doubt. I'm not questioning that.)
I'm a programmer by trade but a hardware guy by birth and education. I don't do endless amounts of coding in my off-time, but instead build things. When it comes time for me to move on, if /everybody/ I talk to requires a large open-source codebase for me to even sit in the same room as them - I won't care. I'll find some like-minded folk and create my own job.
Unfortunately, we live in the world where people eat people.
For those who have large number of repos and code written in GitHub, they would rejoice when they see this. Just like Haskell people would feel excited when they see the number of jobs for Haskell programmers out there cannot be met with the supply.
These people will push this idea forward because it is for their best interest (only a few who would keep the purity of the community).
At the end of the day, we're all human beings so we have greeds and egos. We want to have high salary or challenging work or the best work place/culture/free-food and we work to achieve that. Part of the work is to have GitHub repos apparently (used to be StackOverflow karma).
Some hackers dislike the notion of getting interesting jobs/deals because of your rolodex because that would suggest sales/marketing/licking butt mentality. They also dislike it because communication (with real people, not over the internet) is not their strongest suit.
For those who disagree with this wave/bubble, we should create our own. We should push our own ideology. We should figure out how not to be attracted with this wave/bubble.
... or we can stand up and be an entrepreneur (one option, not the only option) and say to hell with this job-seeker mob-mentality?