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Re:The fastest-growing countries for software development, a... by gregoriol on Monday February 05, 2024 @06:55AM (#39260254)
Would also be interesting to compare quality of repositories, number of interactions, ...
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Re:The fastest-growing countries for software development, a... by timonoko on Monday February 05, 2024 @07:10AM (#39260367)
https://github.com/gayanvoice/top-github-users/tree/main/mar...

I am #381 in Finland, which is weird, because all I do is occasionally adjust my home automation.

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Re:The fastest-growing countries for software development, a... by elashri on Monday February 05, 2024 @07:16AM (#39260418)
This list has a unique non-development related factor which is that you have to have a minimum number of followers (varying from country to country) so you might be very active and contribute much more than most of the people on the list but do not have the minimum followers required (38 in your country) so you are out.
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Re:The fastest-growing countries for software development, a... by input_sh on Monday February 05, 2024 @07:43AM (#39260641)
I should be #1 in my country by far (~4-5x more followers than the current #1), but I'm not even listed. (Yes, my location is set properly.)

I don't know where they get the user data from, but it's definitely incomplete.

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Re:The fastest-growing countries for software development, a... by Vinnl on Monday February 05, 2024 @09:14AM (#39261396)
Oh huh wow, why do I have 85 followers on GitHub? What do you even see if you "follow" someone?
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Re:The fastest-growing countries for software development, a... by kgeist on Monday February 05, 2024 @07:28AM (#39260525)
Heh, my collegue is in top 200 for Russia, which doesn't sound right either (he's not that active).

P.S. Oh, it says, "You need at least 52 followers to be on this list". He gives lectures at a uni and does code reviews via Github - I guess most of the followers are his students.

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Re:The fastest-growing countries for software development, a... by lawgimenez on Monday February 05, 2024 @07:19AM (#39260435)
I’m #7 in Philippines, I am not sure why. I’m just forking things.
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