Work and Life

For almost all of my professional life I have been very passionate about this topic. I am on the Anita Borg Institute  mailing list. I read various posts addressing this where they talk about why girls need more encouragement to get involved in CS from an early age and how gender stereotyping in schools is hurting their chances. Programs like  http://www.girlstart.org/  conduct camps and special events to encourage girls in STEM subjects, that I enthusiastically support. I got extremely worked up over this post ( http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/28/women-in-tech-stop-blaming-me/ ). Two years later it still makes me angry. There's no disputing the fact is that there are relatively very few women in this field, both entrepreneurs and working in the industry. There's also no disputing a facts like the last ten years of ACM programming champion teams are all men. Sure, there are stellar examples like Marissa Mayer, but what about all these women here who want to break into this ind

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