It told me it coudln't identify my city from my github account. Indeed, i did not have "location" field filled out in my github profile. I went and filled it out. But it still says it cant' identify my city. Caching? Which hopefully will be refreshed at some point? Or do I need to fill out my location in a way other than I have?
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
It sounds like you're opposed to the gamification; care to explain why? I'm curious.
Isn't it right there in his comment? Seems that he doesn't like the idea of having to work for free to "rank higher" if recruiters start to use these sorts of scores. Since no other profession has to work for free like this(see: the carpenter analogy), it seems a reasonable position.
It's already started, right? "Github is your resume" is often said; which sucks for those of us who work on enterprise software and private repos that can't be open sourced.
All kudos to those that can spare the time for, make their livelihood on, or have their company allow them to release, open source software.
I want to be like you, but unfortunately cannot.
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#33Hi, I'm vincent author of GitHub Awards, if you have any questions feel free to ask
It didn't detect my location correctly. I'm in the Boston area, not the UK: http://github-awards.com/users/search?login=kylecronin https://github.com/kylecronin
Same I'm in Rhode Island not Irvine
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#34This is really neat and I love playing with stuff like this. But, fundamentally, it shows that stars aren't a good measure of anything besides stars, at least outside of the top scorers for commonly used languages. For those, it's not a bad proxy for fame. If you like at the top javascript or ruby developers, yep, those are all pretty famous javascript and ruby developers. But if you look at the #6 matlab developer,…
That might just say there is very little matlab code on github. Or matlab users don't use github stars much? Perhaps a better label than 'top developer' would be 'developer of most popular repos' or something.
Or one person made 30 repos and stared them all himself once... giving the account 30 stars in some obscure language.
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#35A further step towards the gamification of Open Source development. On the other hand, maybe that's Github's future business model: Rank Open Source slaves and sell that information to recruiters.
You seem to be under the impression that you think this project is owned by github.
No, I never thought that. I was extrapolating what might happen when an (almost) monopolist like GitHub would start to mine, analyze, and sell data like Facebook.
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#36This brings up something I've been grappling with. How do you get more eyeballs on your open source work? I have a few projects, as does my company, but getting more interest/stars seems like it requires a large investment - substantially larger than any benefit we'd likely derive. "Back in the day" I remember it was as easy as sharing with a few friends or posting on HN, and it would quickly get some traction. Now i…
Well, if you don't really care if anyone else uses your open source, then it doesn't really matter, right?
The reasons you might care are -- to get more contributors, to make the software more sustainable; fame for your yourself or your company (how valuable is this?); etc.
Being clear on what benefit (if any) you will get from the project being more popular will make it easier to guess whether the 'investment' will be worth the 'benefit'.
But how do you do it? I think you've got to not just 'advertise' in general interest places like HN. You've got to find the community of people who will find your code most useful (perhaps people in the same business domain as you are working), and advertise to them, sometimes direct one on one. Conferences and meet-ups are good for this.
I think you've also got to have really good docs, and really good release management practices (semver, no backwards compat bugs, no encouraging using off 'master' instead of a release, good release notes, etc).
And if still nobody is using it, then I guess they don't actually find your software useful!
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#38Kind of question the validity of the rating. I'm supposedly ranked 2,390/161,465 world wide for C++ development. Yet, I have only been posting any code to github for the past year, and I know quite a few better C++ developers than me ranked way below me.
Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub
#39This brings up something I've been grappling with. How do you get more eyeballs on your open source work? I have a few projects, as does my company, but getting more interest/stars seems like it requires a large investment - substantially larger than any benefit we'd likely derive. "Back in the day" I remember it was as easy as sharing with a few friends or posting on HN, and it would quickly get some traction. Now i…
Personally I have not found this difficult.
Get engaged with the community. Follow folks building stuff in your ecosystem on Twitter. Follow them on Github. Then mention them when you release something cool, make good screenshots and a nice intro. It takes one tweet about your project to go heavily retweeted before all sorts of people interested in your future work follow you, and so it goes on and on.
Of course this will only happen if your project is explained well, integrates into your ecosystem's package management, etc. Make sure it looks as tidy and maintained as other popular open source projects you know and love.
Finally, don't forget to star your own repos. This puts them into GH newsletter the next day (“starred by people you follow” section, assuming you already got someone following you), and also will put these repos on your profile page above your forks of other people's projects.
Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub
#40This is really neat and I love playing with stuff like this. But, fundamentally, it shows that stars aren't a good measure of anything besides stars, at least outside of the top scorers for commonly used languages. For those, it's not a bad proxy for fame. If you like at the top javascript or ruby developers, yep, those are all pretty famous javascript and ruby developers. But if you look at the #6 matlab developer,…
As another data point - in the Clojure space, I'm ranked right alongside Rich Hickey down in the 30s.
For those of you who aren't aware, Rich is the inventor and maintainer of the language.