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Github - find your github user id

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Post by rschildmeijer » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 4:53 PM UTC

Github - find your github user id
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Post by mooism2 » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 4:55 PM UTC

What's the point?

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#3

Post by tbeseda » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 5:05 PM UTC

mooism2 wrote: post #2

What's the point?

Determining who was there first, maybe?

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Post by PHPAdam » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 5:08 PM UTC

mooism2 wrote: post #2

What's the point?

Not too sure, not even the tweet button gives a reason: "Found out I'm GitHub user 346166 by using http://caius.github.com/github_id/#PHPAdam

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Post by eclark » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 5:15 PM UTC

tbeseda wrote: post #3

mooism2 wrote: post #2

What's the point?

Determining who was there first, maybe?

That was my though. Kind of like on Slashdot how people used to like their 4 digit user id's

Re: Github - find your github user id

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Post by bradleyland » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 5:19 PM UTC

mooism2 wrote: post #2

What's the point?

Curiosity.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 5:23 PM UTC

mooism2 wrote: post #2

What's the point?

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Post by stephth » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 5:26 PM UTC

mooism2 wrote: post #2

What's the point?

No idea. But crossing this with the "Member Since" date is stunning. I did a quick lookup for three accounts off the top of my head:

03/2008: ~2700

04/2008: ~8800

02/2011: ~627600

Re: Github - find your github user id

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Post by oomkiller » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 5:28 PM UTC

They mentioned something in a hiring post about someone having a low user id, then someone created this using that post as inspiration.

Re: Github - find your github user id

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Post by bjg » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 5:33 PM UTC

stephth wrote: post #8

mooism2 wrote: post #2

What's the point?

No idea. But crossing this with the "Member Since" date is stunning. I did a quick lookup for three accounts off the top of my head: 03/2008: ~2700 04/2008: ~8800 02/2011: ~627600

My join date states February 2008, and apparently i'm user #1212

http://caius.github.com/github_id/#bgianfo

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