Calculate your GitHub hacker score

omakase wrote: post #3

click170 wrote: post #2

Seems like it's not working at the moment, perhaps overloaded.

Getting throttled a bit right now by the github API — should be better soon.

Seems like it's working after all just takes >5 minutes ATM.

How is this score calculated?

Re: Calculate your GitHub hacker score

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Post by jackolas » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 12:00 AM UTC

omakase wrote: post #3

click170 wrote: post #2

Seems like it's not working at the moment, perhaps overloaded.

Getting throttled a bit right now by the github API — should be better soon.

This makes me curious is there any reason why the users couldn't provide the data themselves or poll the API via javascript?

Re: Calculate your GitHub hacker score

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Post by dlsspy » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 12:09 AM UTC

It won't pull my data (dustin). Perhaps too much. I've had that with other tools. I've even got my work spread across several github repos (memcached, couchbase, some others).

Re: Calculate your GitHub hacker score

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Post by ammmir » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 12:10 AM UTC

omakase wrote: post #3

click170 wrote: post #2

Seems like it's not working at the moment, perhaps overloaded.

Getting throttled a bit right now by the github API — should be better soon.

didn't load for me; you should throw up an example screenshot of what the score looks like. have you thought about making an embeddable score widget (similar to what ohloh has) that you could put on a blog?

Re: Calculate your GitHub hacker score

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Post by konsl » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 12:19 AM UTC

click170 wrote: post #4

omakase wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Getting throttled a bit right now by the github API — should be better soon.

Seems like it's working after all just takes >5 minutes ATM. How is this score calculated?

The score's based on your use of GitHub, who follows you and your projects, as well as (this is where BackType comes in) how much they are shared on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Hacker News, etc.

Re: Calculate your GitHub hacker score

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Post by konsl » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 12:20 AM UTC

jackolas wrote: post #5

omakase wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Getting throttled a bit right now by the github API — should be better soon.

This makes me curious is there any reason why the users couldn't provide the data themselves or poll the API via javascript?

Since we're using BackType as well to calculate the score, it was easier to do both requests server-side. We pre-ran a long list of popular users and all of their followers, but guess we didn't reach enough people :(

If you leave the tab open, it will finish.

Re: Calculate your GitHub hacker score

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Post by konsl » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 12:21 AM UTC

ammmir wrote: post #7

omakase wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Getting throttled a bit right now by the github API — should be better soon.

didn't load for me; you should throw up an example screenshot of what the score looks like. have you thought about making an embeddable score widget (similar to what ohloh has) that you could put on a blog?

Here's an example (or you can click usernames on the frontpage): http://cl.ly/232U2o2t0C2y3V0J0r10