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Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Post by progval »

em-bee wrote: post #34
codingdave wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I end up with a new account at every gig I work. I don't even remember them all. Maybe this is bad practice on my part, and I should be shutting them down when a job ends, but I just like the separation of personal vs. work accounts.

i actually think it is good practice. if there is any issue with the gig, they eg try to force you to hand over access to the account, or someone is breaking into your github account then you don't expose all your other work. there may be an issue with github TOS not allowing more than one free account per person though. i don't know if that is still the case, but then i would get a paid account for each paid gig and…

> there may be an issue with github TOS not allowing more than one free account per person though. i don't know if that is still the case

it is: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Post by denton-scratch »

Oarch wrote: post #3

These numbers imply 4.5% of the entire UK population had an active GitHub account in Q3 2023. Seems very high. Unless there are people out there with huge numbers of accounts? Can anyone explain this?

I've been a UK developer for 50 years. I've never had a Github account. I doubt I'm unique, nor even unusual. I don't participate in any Github-hosted projects (which usually means open-source). I happen to dislike git.

It stands to reason that Github would want to promote the notion that you can't be a real developer unless you're on Github.

You can't generalize from "number of Github accounts" to "number of developers".

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Post by p1esk »

onetimeuse92304 wrote: post #29
Oarch wrote: post #3

These numbers imply 4.5% of the entire UK population had an active GitHub account in Q3 2023. Seems very high. Unless there are people out there with huge numbers of accounts? Can anyone explain this?

Sounds about right. Remember, for most starting developers (which is almost all developers), a GitHub account is an essential part of their job search, just like having a LinkedIn account. And then at a lot of companies you get a separate GitHub account because companies do not really want to deal with your personal account, they want to manage it to enforce 2fa, to be able to disable it when you leave (as if it matt…

for most starting developers (which is almost all developers)

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Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Post by wing-_-nuts »

sugarkjube wrote: post #18

I wouldnt trust this data that much. I recently noticed many github accounts which only seem to contain solutions for exercises in a programming courses, iirc most from from india. This seems to match this survey. My 2 cts, probably this just shows countries where schools prefer to use github over their own infrastructure, or else students being creative in sharing their solutions outside of school.

I would personally like to see LOC / capita. As much as it's not a good metric to measure dev productivity I think it would be useful here to show real engagement

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Post by amelius »

wing-_-nuts wrote: post #45
sugarkjube wrote: post #18

I wouldnt trust this data that much. I recently noticed many github accounts which only seem to contain solutions for exercises in a programming courses, iirc most from from india. This seems to match this survey. My 2 cts, probably this just shows countries where schools prefer to use github over their own infrastructure, or else students being creative in sharing their solutions outside of school.

I would personally like to see LOC / capita. As much as it's not a good metric to measure dev productivity I think it would be useful here to show real engagement

I'd like to see the median of LOC over people per country, and higher quantiles.

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Post by HexDecOctBin »

Thorrez wrote: post #24
sugarkjube wrote: post #18

I wouldnt trust this data that much. I recently noticed many github accounts which only seem to contain solutions for exercises in a programming courses, iirc most from from india. This seems to match this survey. My 2 cts, probably this just shows countries where schools prefer to use github over their own infrastructure, or else students being creative in sharing their solutions outside of school.

In my college in the US students also had to create Github accounts and turn in assignments there (in private repositories).

Yes, but Americans are normal people and thus not suspicious. Those Indians however, something's up with them, can't you just feel it? They haven't even invented schools yet (British forgot to teach them how to do that), so why would they have assignments? Very shady, if you ask me.
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