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Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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Post by knowtheory »

danso wrote: post #42

It's surprising to me that so many in this thread are asking if these rankings are legit. Of course they aren't -- they operate on a simplification that trade accuracy for convenience. It's one developer's side project...many professional companies and analysts have failed to encapsulate the worth of a human being as a number, why should this developer be any better? That said, I imagine a lot of headhunter companies…

Yep, and the location identification is pretty broken too.

I live in Columbia Missouri (MO) and the rankings for "Columbia" include folks from Columbia Maryland (MD) and Columbia South Carolina (SC).

So even if people want to use dashboard summary data like this, they should do some basic validation to figure out what the data means and how it was analyzed (and what flaws it might entail).

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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Post by mrottenkolber »

picsoung wrote: post #4

I am pretty surprised by my ranking in San Francisco :) 86 in Lua devs? not so many Lua devs around ... Also, it seems that some of my repo are not taking into account, like https://github.com/picsoung/uberSlackBot which has 13 stars.

I'm #1 in my town. :> It only sees 2 CL repositories though (of 10 or so):(.

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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Post by lucisferre »

I run most of my projects under an organization so this doesn't really work. Also stars aren't really a great measure of anything after a point. Perfect example are the json-jwt and ruby-jwt gems. The latter gets more stars because it is arguably easier for people to find even though the former is a far more complete and robust implementation of the JWT spec.

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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Post by josegonzalez »

lucisferre wrote: post #55

I run most of my projects under an organization so this doesn't really work. Also stars aren't really a great measure of anything after a point. Perfect example are the json-jwt and ruby-jwt gems. The latter gets more stars because it is arguably easier for people to find even though the former is a far more complete and robust implementation of the JWT spec.

Same here. I contribute a large part of my OS time at the moment to CakePHP projects - under an org - and Dokku - under another person's username. Everytime I see a site that ranks developers based on github profiles, I cringe a bit.

On that note, I'm apparently the 3rd top PHP developer in NYC. That strikes me as a bit odd, as Phil Sturgeon is also in the area. I guess they don't count "Bristol & Brooklyn" as NYC :)

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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Post by jlarocco »

codebeaker wrote: post #26

I'd like to call out for the author of this that you are in breach of the Github name and branding usage guidelines: > ## Naming projects and products > Please avoid naming your projects anything that implies GitHub’s endorsement. This also applies to domain names. (Reference: https://github.com/logos ) Edit: Why the downvotes? It's valid, and if someone had used my company name in their unauthorized, misleading and…

I wish GitHub would crack down harder on sites that do this.

This site, and a lot of the other sites that use GitHub APIs and data are clearly trying to blur the boundary between whether they're part of GitHub or not, and it's incredibly annoying.

I don't pay for my GitHub account so that I can have some goofy ranking, or spend 10 minutes wondering, "Is this site really affiliated with GitHub?" If it keeps up, I'll probably migrate to BitBucket at some point.

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