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Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

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Post by denzil_correa »

bcleary wrote: post #10

Thanks for the comments and votes. By the way if anybody is interested this was presented as part of the mining challenge at MSR2013 http://2013.msrconf.org/challenge.php and here is the paper http://thechiselgroup.org/2013/03/27/a-study-of-innovation-d...

I was just about to ask this question! I read that paper and found it quite interesting.

Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

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Post by bcleary »

Encosia wrote: post #23

Nice work. This would take some work (more on the server's part than yours), but I think it would be more accurate if you tested the links for 301 redirects and consolidated the results accordingly. For example, in the ASP.NET tag one of my pages has 112 links to an older URL ( http://encosia.com/2008/05/29/using-jquery-to-directly-call-... ) that 301 redirects to a newer URL ( http://encosia.com/using-jquery-to-dire…

Thanks. Re the redirects, yea I have a lot of work to do on my crawler, my current solution is hand rolled and only has limited capabilities. But if anybody knows of a good open source project let me know, i have been looking at using the common crawl but that's not a complete solution either.

Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

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Post by bcleary »

ChrisClark wrote: post #29

The most popular link for Android answers is AsyncTask. It makes sense, one of the biggest complaint about Android is that it isn't always perfectly smooth and people notice the jerkiness in the UI. I would say a large majority of the time it is because an Android app developer is running slow code on the UI thread instead of doing it correctly.

Interesting in c# the second most popular link is for the BackgroundWorker class, not entirely the same use case but i guess similar motivations. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmode...

Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

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Post by bcleary »

captaincrowbar wrote: post #30

Looking at the results for C++, it looks like the text santizing you're doing on link titles is losing the "++". All the titles seem to have C instead of C++, e.g. "Boost C Libraries" should be "Boost C++ Libraries". You're also losing the # in C# and the dot in .NET, and probably others.

Thanks for the heads up, will modify the parser, again if anybody knows of a good open source crawler let me know. I rolled my own very quickly but would love it if i could find a 3rd party solution. Another option i have explored is pulling in the titles and descriptions provided by search engines but currently only DuckDuckGo offers anything useful and even then its coverage of some of these low ranking programming pages isn't great. Bing offers a pay per use access to its index but the costing structure really doesn't fit with my use case.

Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

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Post by bcleary »

eliasmacpherson wrote: post #40

This is very cool! This only a minor quibble but when you've selected e.g. C and then C++, the 'x' to remove one or other tag from the search results is nearly invisible. I only found it because I've used a similar 'x' box before on a different site to remove results.

Thanks, will update.

Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

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Post by bcleary »

__sb__ wrote: post #31

This is an awesome idea! Is there any way to create a randomized list weighted with popularity (so for a given tag you can refresh to find new links, but still ones likely to be interesting)?

Thanks for the support, really encouraged by the feedback here on Hacker News. You guys are great.

To your question, yes I am currently testing some ideas for a magic ranking system. One option is as you say a kind of random select amounts popular or trending links. Another is a smart weighted sort when filtering by multiple tags. One problem is that right now if you add jQuery to your filter, the javascript results are going to just dominate everything else.

Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

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Post by bcleary »

raimonds wrote: post #41

Here's the same but for Hacker News http://www.hnstore.co/42.html

Wow, that's really cool, have to admit i didn't see that before. Let me know if your interested in sharing data, we are doing a lot of research in this area and the more data the better!

Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

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Post by bcleary »

rc4algorithm wrote: post #42

It would be interesting to weight the links by the score of the corresponding comment.

I actually had that in an earlier version and took it out just to simplify the design but i am actually looking at this again to produce a better sorting experience. Also the number of views a post receives may be a good metric also.
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