> None of their engineering staff have anything visible on their GitHub accounts - not even a project that they got two lines into and then threw away, which I honestly accept as a sign of baseline competence these days
As much as I want to contribute to FOSS I have kids to take care of, and want to parent. While I’m not star dev, I am certainly competent.
I've been a C++ dev for more than a decade and every single project I've ever worked on has been confidential and closed source, there is nothing for me to put on GitHub, other than personal stuff but then why would I ever do that? My hobby projects don't reflect my professional standards for coding, if they did they would no longer be hobby projects :P
Same with me, I have active projects on github but the repos are private and bespoke, very specific to my environment. It's not performative activity to make my profile look good, I actually use the stuff.
And are you sure your use cases don't match others', or are you not willing to share your work for free with them? Why would it be performative to make it public?
3. Lots of code is useless because it serves as some specific compatibly for an ad hoc process that someone a long time ago automated wrong.
4. Publishing code to GitHub requires effort in making it look readable to someone who isn't doing what you're doing.
5. If you don't do #4, you'll clutter up search results for others, which is literally a disservice to open source.
Also, public repos are for getting lots of people to work together for the good of the project's utility. Making them public for others' plaudits is literally the worst thing to happen to open source development.
Save the vanity for Facebook. We're trying to solve problems here.
Why is this on HN? This seems like a scam in a sense. Look at the “pressure hull” compared to the numerous openings cut into the outer hull for party decks or whatever, they don’t really connect and the interior space is made to look much bigger than it is. How are they going to constantly dewater the ship when there is water leaking in everywhere? What happens if someone forgets to close one of the 100 exterior openings?
Maybe these are just renderings to market the idea, but I would have no confidence I would get what was advertised if anything.
Then there is the practical and comfort aspect that other people have mentioned.
Not surprised due to effects of scale, but who cares, only a small fraction of the population, gros their own food as a hobby. It’s a statistical blip.
Why don’t we focus on how awful return to office is for the environment? If we were serious about saving the plant this would be everywhere.
As much as I want to contribute to FOSS I have kids to take care of, and want to parent. While I’m not star dev, I am certainly competent.