Some statistics on women in IT

What's your black triangle?

There is a great post from 1994 about black triangles in the context of building large and complex systems. You might think that 1994 sounds like the dark ages, but the principles outlined in that post do stand the test of time. Here is my favorite excerpt from that post: What she later came to realize (and explain to others) was that the black triangle was a pioneer. It wasn’t just that we’d managed to get a triangle onto the screen. That could be done in about a day. It was the journey the triangle had taken to get up on the screen. It had passed through our new modeling tools, through two different intermediate converter programs, had been loaded up as a complete database, and been rendered through a fairly complex scene hierarchy, fully textured and lit (though there were no lights, so the triangle came out looking black). The black triangle demonstrated that the foundation was finally complete the core of a fairly complex system was completed, and we were now ready t...

What are your future plans? Why are you still a developer?

If I had a nickel for every time someone has asked me that question I'd have enough change for a year? Inspired by my friend's post here , I thought I'd write about how I ended up doing what I do now. Then I thought about it some more and decided to write about something else. Is it important to know where you are going in life? If you aren't moving forward in your career does it mean that you are doing something wrong? What does "moving up the ladder" even mean? I am going to attempt to answer these questions for myself. Its almost 5 years since I began my professional career. It has been great so far, lots of ups some downs as well. However, once in a while when I get the title question it still throws me off. It is usually my parents or well meaning relatives, sometimes friends that ask this. I have nothing much to say to them except "I enjoy what I am doing right now, haven't really thought about the future". But the truth is - I have thou...

A cosmo style guide to git

Imagine a Venn diagram with three sets - developers, git users, and Cosmo readers. I am one of those at the tiny intersection of all three. There may be others out there but I don't personally know any. Despite the provocative title, this post has little to do with Cosmo. Cosmo is like my perfect escape route when I want to step away from real life for a bit. Thumbing through articles like '10 ways to style your hair'! '27 must have Shoes for fall!' and more of the same thing said 30 different ways is very entertaining to me. Not that I actually follow anything in there. Cosmo does have a few things going for them - they know how to pick a provocative title, and their sentences are short enough to convey their message without being overly verbose and preachy. You can get what they are trying to convey using 10% of your brain. As an enthusiastic Git user, I decided to write about how it changed my life. I have never felt this inspired about any other tool to ...

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