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Git hits for github: are you awesome enough to be in the top 10 in your city?

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Re: Git hits for github: are you awesome enough to be in the top 10 in your city?

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Boulder ? I understand all the other choices but didn't realize Boulder was such a hotbed of developers. Is it? (If you're taking votes, Los Angeles seems a significant omission at this stage.)

Perhaps not in total population but Boulder definitely has a solid startup presence, relatively speaking (SimpleGeo, OneRiot, TechStars, ...).

update: But certainly, LA and Chicago (mentioned elsewhere) are good additions.

Re: Git hits for github: are you awesome enough to be in the top 10 in your city?

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So, evidently, it doesn't do any proximity analysis. I listed my location as "Limerick, PA, US", which is outside Philadelphia. It'd be interesting to add that capability.

Totally, I would love it add that. I actually have all PA data already.

Re: Git hits for github: are you awesome enough to be in the top 10 in your city?

#18

Boulder ? I understand all the other choices but didn't realize Boulder was such a hotbed of developers. Is it? (If you're taking votes, Los Angeles seems a significant omission at this stage.)

Hmm... just glancing at the most-watched & most-forked totals, Boulder is ahead of both Atlanta and Houston -- for what it's worth (not much).

Besides startups the other replier mentioned, there's also a lot of bigger software-centric & tech companies here for a city this size. (IBM, Su--Oracle, Rally, Vexcel (now Microsoft), Rational (now IBM), Google...)

Re: Git hits for github: are you awesome enough to be in the top 10 in your city?

#19

Boulder ? I understand all the other choices but didn't realize Boulder was such a hotbed of developers. Is it? (If you're taking votes, Los Angeles seems a significant omission at this stage.)

Boulder has a ton of developers, and really active communities in Ruby, Python and startups. Coffee shops and restaurants downtown at lunch time are a lot like ones in SOMA in SF: there's several tables' worth of nerds sitting around talking software or startups.

Re: Git hits for github: are you awesome enough to be in the top 10 in your city?

#20

Sadly its not "in your city" but "in twelve US cities." I was really hoping that I could see if there were even other people who used Git in New Hampshire and how prominent they were.

True, I would love to expand. But within github api limit I'm limited to what cities I can pick. Maybe NH would come next :)

You could let users enter their a city and fetch the data locally via javascript. That way, the usage counts against their IP's API limit, not yours.

Edit: To be more clear, this would only work for showing the data to the user that requests it, not sending it back to the server for other users to see.

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