Recently John Resig (creator of the jQuery library) wrote on his twitter that \"
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Recently John Resig (creator of the jQuery library) wrote on his twitter that "When it comes to hiring, I'll take a Github commit log over a resume any day.".
As much as I respect that (motivating developers to give back to the community), it also puzzles me, as not all of us have the opportunity to do so, for a number of reasons (family, employer agreements, etc).
How would you make a case for the non-contributor developer? Do you think that developers that do not contribute to open-source software are doomed from certain kinds of organizations?
Explanation / Answer
I think you've misinterpreted this tweet.
John Resig is stating that much more information can be obtained from an accessible code commit rather than a resume. He's not excluding anyone that doesn't have a GitHub (or open source account).
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