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Re: Show HN: Weekend project - Gitscore

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Post by tubbo » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 12:17 AM UTC

joelhaasnoot wrote: post #8

agilbert wrote: post #7

I believe that VisionMedia own the place !

He is a pretty prolific programmer and spawner of all things Node.js related.

aka he implements ruby libs in js

Re: Show HN: Weekend project - Gitscore

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Post by pinchyfingers » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 12:19 AM UTC

Surely Github has more than 1500 users?

Re: Show HN: Weekend project - Gitscore

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Post by imjared » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 12:40 AM UTC

mkopinsky wrote: post #15

Small UI note - when you focus the text box the hint text should go away. I found myself trying to select and delete the hint text since it wasn't going away by itself.

This is default behavior for the placeholder element in your browser, not an issue with this site's UI.

Re: Show HN: Weekend project - Gitscore

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Post by kayz » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 1:47 AM UTC

pinchyfingers wrote: post #22

Surely Github has more than 1500 users?

It's still indexing as far as I can tell.

Re: Show HN: Weekend project - Gitscore

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Post by heliodor » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 2:00 AM UTC

When you start measuring things, people start gaming them, so for github's sake I hope your project disappears into oblivion.

Klout is the latest major sad example of this phenomenon. People are modifying their Twitter behavior in some fascinating ways to game their Klout score.

However, people love shortcuts, so I'm sure you can refine your service and subscribe clueless HR folks to it.

Re: Show HN: Weekend project - Gitscore

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Post by foobar2k » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 2:28 AM UTC

heliodor wrote: post #25

When you start measuring things, people start gaming them, so for github's sake I hope your project disappears into oblivion. Klout is the latest major sad example of this phenomenon. People are modifying their Twitter behavior in some fascinating ways to game their Klout score. However, people love shortcuts, so I'm sure you can refine your service and subscribe clueless HR folks to it.

I don't think that means people should not measure things, if we didn't measure things we would never improve.

Re: Show HN: Weekend project - Gitscore

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Post by dazbradbury » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 2:29 AM UTC

imjared wrote: post #23

mkopinsky wrote: post #15

Small UI note - when you focus the text box the hint text should go away. I found myself trying to select and delete the hint text since it wasn't going away by itself.

This is default behavior for the placeholder element in your browser, not an issue with this site's UI.

Well, yes and no. It's the default behaviour, but it seems strange as the text is centred. I think if you left-align the text box input, it would seem more intuitive.

Re: Show HN: Weekend project - Gitscore

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Post by markerdmann » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 3:59 AM UTC

Neat project. I built something similar a few weeks ago with Alfred Chan and Michael Grosser that calculates the "gitscore" for startups on AngelList. If you'd like to check it out, the URL is:

http://startup-score.com/

Re: Show HN: Weekend project - Gitscore

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Post by eliben » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 5:05 AM UTC

Github is a great site, but it's not the only place where developers publish code - so be careful.

For instance, there are other places like Bitbucket (which I use myself because of Mercurial and the unlimited amount of private repos), Google Code, and also heavy contributors to big open-source projects that just have their own code hosting.

Re: Show HN: Weekend project - Gitscore

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Post by mkopinsky » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 5:28 AM UTC

dazbradbury wrote: post #27

imjared wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is default behavior for the placeholder element in your browser, not an issue with this site's UI.

Well, yes and no. It's the default behaviour, but it seems strange as the text is centred. I think if you left-align the text box input, it would seem more intuitive.

Maybe I'm more used to sites implementing it with Javascript. It does seem to be the default behavior; I'm trying to figure out why intuitively I expected it to be different.