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flexagoontoday at 11:39 AM2 repliesview on HN

Keep in mind that many people also contribute to big open source projects just because they believe it will look good ok their CV/GitHub and help them get a job. They don't care about helping anyone, they just want to write "contributed to Ghostty" in their application.


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nchmytoday at 11:58 AM

I think this falls under the "have no shame" comment that they made

0x696C6961today at 12:24 PM

From my experience, it's not about helping anyone or CV building. I just ran into a bug or a missing feature that is blocking me.