Show HN: GitBattle – Battle two Github accounts

Post by anigbrowl » Tue, Nov 06, 2012, 12:56 AM UTC

jessepollak wrote: post #9

anigbrowl wrote: post #6

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Unlocking the secret of life, apparently. At least, that's what it says it's doing now, after complaining that nobody else had got this far. It's been about 5 minutes... ...maybe it would have been wise to start with a table of existing entries that could be resolved quickly. I don't use Git and couldn't think of any accounts off the top of my head, so I just set 'abc' against 'xyz' on the theory that those usernames…

Hmmm...it shouldn't be taking that long? Would you mind checking your console?

  Failed to load resource https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
  Port error: Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist. miscellaneous_bindings:236
  chromeHidden.Port.dispatchOnDisconnect miscellaneous_bindings:236
  Uncaught ReferenceError: twttr is not defined app.js:190

Post by bilalq » Tue, Nov 06, 2012, 1:01 AM UTC

jessepollak wrote: post #3

bilalq wrote: post #2

It's definitely fun to mess around with. Nicely, done! Quick question: why do repo and gist counts cap at 100? I haven't looked at Github's API myself yet, so there might be a technical limitation here that I'm unaware of.

Yeah, there are a lot of technical limitations that we had to work around. Mainly, everything is paginated with a max per_page of 100. We decided to only analyze the 100 most recent gists and repos to not have to worry about that. For commits, however, we couldn't not analyze them, so we do a ton of processing. Basically, we loop over every one of your repos and loop over all of the pages of commits for that repo. Fo…

Post by arkenflame » Tue, Nov 06, 2012, 1:24 AM UTC

Post by akent » Tue, Nov 06, 2012, 1:25 AM UTC

Post by jessepollak » Tue, Nov 06, 2012, 1:49 AM UTC

aristidb wrote: post #18

It seems like it overvalues Gists a bit. :)