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Comment by ubercow13 | Hacker News Reader

>A small tip, if you expect people to visit your profile (and I assume you do, since you provided the link in the resume), it is worth it to put a (professional) picture of yourself there. The profiler readme on GitHub is also surprising attractive when looking at a candidate.

No thanks, my personal Github is not a LinkedIn profile.

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If it’s listed on your CV, then that’s for me to judge.

Sure but why do you care about the person having a picture... It's Github, look at the code, it's what it's there for.

GitHub is there so you can present your code to the world in an organised, documented, and personalised way. Part of that includes a short bio and profile pic. I don’t expect a professionally framed headshot with nice lighting, just upload something that’s not the default, to set yourself slightly apart from the crowd.

Some of us don't like having our photo out there on the internets for privacy reasons. How about a headshot of my dog instead?

People put Github on their CV because employers like candidates who are interested enough in programming to do it in their spare time (for better or worse). My Github is my personal tool to interact with the open source community for practical purposes and to host my own projects, not a professional profile built to impress you. I just put it on my CV for your interest. Not everything I mention on my CV is done solely in service of getting my next job.

>GitHub is there so you can present your code to the world in an organised, documented, and personalised way

Not really, it is not a portfolio. It is a tool for programming and collaboration.

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