GitHire

#1

Post by wolfparade » Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 4:03 PM UTC

GitHire
githire.com

Re: GitHire

#2

Post by jt11508 » Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 4:13 PM UTC

Looks like they are in 503 land right now...

Re: GitHire

#3

Post by astrodust » Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 4:23 PM UTC

jt11508 wrote: post #2

Looks like they are in 503 land right now...

Good. As interesting an idea as this is, it'll just be exploited by worthless, lazy recruiters.

Re: GitHire

#4

Post by kstenerud » Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 4:36 PM UTC

So how is this different from Klout's "high tech super-secret ranking algorithm" that everyone knows is worthless?

Re: GitHire

#5

Post by wolfparade » Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 4:38 PM UTC

kstenerud wrote: post #4

So how is this different from Klout's "high tech super-secret ranking algorithm" that everyone knows is worthless?

GitRank, is based on the pagerank algorithm. Check out the best see if they don't match who you think should be there. http://www.githire.com/best

Re: GitHire

#6

Post by iambot » Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 4:41 PM UTC

hmmm, seems I'm entirely irrelevant, with a GitRank of: N/A. Better not tell my employer.

I'm not sure whether this is due to my profile not being indexed or that its rank is so low so as to be negligible.

Would be nice if they explained their ranking system better. (On the site itself)

Re: GitHire

#7

Post by tibbon » Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 4:44 PM UTC

I actually love this based on easy of finding cool programmers in my area using languages I can play with. Yea, this sounds silly if you're in SF, but in Columbus, Ohio, finding cool programmers that dig FoSS and interpreted languages is tricky. Too many people doing Java, .NET and Oracle stuff at Nationwide and similar. Too few people doing fun things.

THANK YOU to whoever made this.

Re: GitHire

#8

Post by mstepniowski » Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 4:44 PM UTC

iambot wrote: post #6

hmmm, seems I'm entirely irrelevant, with a GitRank of: N/A. Better not tell my employer. I'm not sure whether this is due to my profile not being indexed or that its rank is so low so as to be negligible. Would be nice if they explained their ranking system better. (On the site itself)

It looks like they are still crawling the GitHub pages.

Re: GitHire

#9

Post by clyfe » Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 4:46 PM UTC

wolfparade wrote: post #5

kstenerud wrote: post #4

So how is this different from Klout's "high tech super-secret ranking algorithm" that everyone knows is worthless?

GitRank, is based on the pagerank algorithm. Check out the best see if they don't match who you think should be there. http://www.githire.com/best

Is it this one :) ?

http://www.michael-noll.com/projects/spear-algorithm/

Re: GitHire

#10

Post by kstenerud » Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 4:47 PM UTC

wolfparade wrote: post #5

kstenerud wrote: post #4

So how is this different from Klout's "high tech super-secret ranking algorithm" that everyone knows is worthless?

GitRank, is based on the pagerank algorithm. Check out the best see if they don't match who you think should be there. http://www.githire.com/best

Sure. For example:

http://www.githire.com/user/tom3q has a bunch of repos and a score of 2.79.

http://www.githire.com/user/ukanga has basically nothing and a score of 5.33.