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Patrick McKenzie
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Patrick McKenzie

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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 9 Nov 2015
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      HN commenter: "Sometimes you have to pay your dues and do at-cost or volunteer work." <-- Strong. Disagree. Neither required nor sufficient.

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 9 Nov 2015
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      Engineers want to think "Man if I just throw lots of value up onto Github then I will be given the best jobs and gigs." This is *NOT TRUE.*

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    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 9 Nov 2015
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      You get the best jobs and gigs by getting good at selling yourselves to the decisionmakers for the best jobs and gigs. Portfolio small piece

      4 replies 17 retweets 58 likes
    4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 9 Nov 2015
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      There exist OSS devs of critically ecosystemicly important work who are starving artists because they haven't figured out sales/marketing.

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 9 Nov 2015
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      Conversely many people whose careers are enviable on any metric have no publicly accessible code, because companies pay them for their work.

      9:59 AM - 9 Nov 2015
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        2. Jake Harvey‏ @jwestonharvey 9 Nov 2015
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          @patio11 I suspect those of us with no public code represent the dark matter of the developer universe.

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 9 Nov 2015
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          Replying to @jwestonharvey

          @jwestonharvey Starfighter certainly hopes so, you Higgs Bosons of awesomeness.

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        1. Dave Weinstein‏ @dhw 9 Nov 2015
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          @patio11 I think only one thing I've written in the last 25 years (!exploitable) is publicly available in source code form.

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        2. Chris J. Davis‏ @chrisjdavis 9 Nov 2015
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          @patio11 @rfelix there are many of us who have great jobs, AND have OSS code. One doesn't preclude the other. And I don't sell myself.

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        3. Richard Felix‏ @rfelix 9 Nov 2015
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          @chrisjdavis @patio11 I didn’t read it as Patrick saying that one precludes the other. I don’t think that was his point at all.

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        2. Chris Ashworth‏ @Chris_Ashworth 9 Nov 2015
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          @patio11 There was a long long time that if your hiring metric was based on visible/open code I was a non-entity. Still not much there.

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        3. Chris Ashworth‏ @Chris_Ashworth 9 Nov 2015
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          @patio11 This is not a point of pride or a point of shame, it just is what it is. Was bootstrapping a company with closed code.

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