As an open source developer myself, I and honestly discouraged by fucking gender politics. Its a fucking plague on everything I contributed to: from atheism to college groups. I also wanted to move all my projects out of github but my fear is that moving from one service to another will infect new services when these become popular. Today it's github tomorrow it will be Bitbucket or some other service. Recently I've been experimenting with private clouds and private repositories but idk, maybe private-invite only services, idk.
They sort of gave up in the 1980s when the personal computer came out and it was targeted to boys. Women in computer science has declined since then.
Boys and men filled the void left by women who left programming jobs.
So really these gender politics issues are silly, women used to dominate programming at one time. The only reason why we don't have more women as programmers is lack of interest. Only 18% of computer science students are female.
Early on computer programming was mistakenly thought to be a low skill task like typing. Thus it was seen as women's work. It rapidly became clear that this was not the case, and the number of women declined. There was a brief resurgence as word got out that salaries were high, but again there was a big decline when people realized that it was actually hard work.
In my several decades in computers, very few women actually stayed in hard core programming and design. The vast majority migrated into HR, project office, CIO's harem, etc.
Once women realize what programming actually involves they exit in droves. This is no more due to discrimination than the fact that very few oil rig workers are women.
In those old black and white pictures of women in computer rooms, the women's job title was "computer". The programmers were men, the women put punch cards into slots.
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15 u/NiklausTheNaked 20 Feb 2016 16:29
Hurray for GitLab!
7 u/pepepepepe 20 Feb 2016 22:12
You might want to think twice about that endorsement.
Also on my shitlist:
Gitorious
Bitbucket (deleted the C+= repo)
Google Code (deleted the C+= repo, also it's Google, also I think it's dead now)
0 u/alien_01 20 Feb 2016 22:57
Eh?
3 u/ddd 20 Feb 2016 23:19
c+=
lmao
4 u/duannguyen 21 Feb 2016 07:00
My favorite from C+= repo
#define fatpride double // no more weightism and fat shaminglmfao.
1 u/diodine 21 Feb 2016 17:28
std::mt19937 feelings(time(NULL));The feelings are always random. lmao
0 u/freed00m 22 Feb 2016 19:07
Holy cow, I like GitLab but shutting down a repo due feminist bullshitte is no no.
11 u/european 20 Feb 2016 16:35
I hear bitbucket mentioned from time to time.
4 u/WhiteRonin 20 Feb 2016 16:38
Bit bucket also offers free private repos. I'm only on GitHub because the framework I use has lots of other users there too.
I also have a gitlab server at my disposal that I keep private stuff on.
2 u/0x7a69 20 Feb 2016 20:46
Note that the bitbucket pricing model is a lot better for businesses than github as well. In fact most of the atlassian stack is really good.
0 u/doorknob22 20 Feb 2016 16:39
Yeah I like bitbucket's private repos and whatnot as well.
10 u/zquad 20 Feb 2016 21:08
As an open source developer myself, I and honestly discouraged by fucking gender politics. Its a fucking plague on everything I contributed to: from atheism to college groups. I also wanted to move all my projects out of github but my fear is that moving from one service to another will infect new services when these become popular. Today it's github tomorrow it will be Bitbucket or some other service. Recently I've been experimenting with private clouds and private repositories but idk, maybe private-invite only services, idk.
2 u/magnora 21 Feb 2016 00:18
Also people are looking for reddit alternatives more and more: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=reddit%20alternatives
1 u/OrionBlastar 21 Feb 2016 02:19
Oddly in the old days women used to get a lot of programming jobs. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-computer-programming-was-womens-work/2011/08/24/gIQAdixGgJ_story.html
They sort of gave up in the 1980s when the personal computer came out and it was targeted to boys. Women in computer science has declined since then.
Boys and men filled the void left by women who left programming jobs.
So really these gender politics issues are silly, women used to dominate programming at one time. The only reason why we don't have more women as programmers is lack of interest. Only 18% of computer science students are female.
1 u/tehpatriarchy 21 Feb 2016 11:29
Early on computer programming was mistakenly thought to be a low skill task like typing. Thus it was seen as women's work. It rapidly became clear that this was not the case, and the number of women declined. There was a brief resurgence as word got out that salaries were high, but again there was a big decline when people realized that it was actually hard work.
In my several decades in computers, very few women actually stayed in hard core programming and design. The vast majority migrated into HR, project office, CIO's harem, etc.
Once women realize what programming actually involves they exit in droves. This is no more due to discrimination than the fact that very few oil rig workers are women.
2 u/gota_party 25 Feb 2016 01:14
In those old black and white pictures of women in computer rooms, the women's job title was "computer". The programmers were men, the women put punch cards into slots.
0 u/gregorypeckerwood 20 Feb 2016 20:22
SJW Programmer Training Camps are a thing now
0 u/SelfReferenceParadox 21 Feb 2016 03:48
Bitbucket seems to be pretty ok.
0 u/asdghjklfghasldk 05 Mar 2016 04:30
if you hate this crap host your own
if your frickin lazy grab a premade VM from https://www.perforce.com/downloads/helix-gitswarm that has a Gitlab fork pre configured.