Super secret easter egg: http://twitter.github.com/?larry=25 (Shh! Secret!)
Really cool
Twitter launches new GitHub page
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Re: Twitter launches new GitHub page
#12Super secret easter egg: http://twitter.github.com/?larry=25 (Shh! Secret!)
Also works if you just click on the twitter logo
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#13Scala will be the new big thing, even companies like IBM and SAP are using it now. But to be really comparable to Java/C++ it will take a decade. Twitter is very good here, they have a not so enterprisey brand and will improve popularity in the startup community.
Does IBM and SAP using it imply that Scala is even more complicated than Java, warranting even higher consulting fees?
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#14It appears that Twitter is the source for all of these projects, which is not the case. About 14 of the projects are forks of other repositories on GitHub. Many of the project descriptions include references to their parent projects but it would be nice to see them show it is a Twitter fork and not the main repo.
Most of the "forks" are forks from Twitter employees' personal repos that were created before things got consolidated under Twitter's account. A few aren't and are called out as such. Which ones are missing proper attribution?
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#15I like the design, but what does it offer that Twitter's GitHub page doesn't? It's just an alternative layout with less information and much less functionality.
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#16Re: Twitter launches new GitHub page
#17Scala will be the new big thing, even companies like IBM and SAP are using it now. But to be really comparable to Java/C++ it will take a decade. Twitter is very good here, they have a not so enterprisey brand and will improve popularity in the startup community.
Does IBM and SAP using it imply that Scala is even more complicated than Java, warranting even higher consulting fees?
Air out your suit! It's time to mint some monaay!
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#19I like the design, but what does it offer that Twitter's GitHub page doesn't? It's just an alternative layout with less information and much less functionality.
I agree. Not only is it lacking the last time each individual repo was updated, but it seems to be ordered by how many people are watching it rather than what language it's in or when it was last updated. It looks like the only things it adds are the nice, at-a-glance repo language colors, the three last-updated repositories, and— in the case of bootstrap and hogan.js— links to the project's github site under twitter.github.com rather than its github repo page.
Nonetheless, it looks fantastic.
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#20It appears that Twitter is the source for all of these projects, which is not the case. About 14 of the projects are forks of other repositories on GitHub. Many of the project descriptions include references to their parent projects but it would be nice to see them show it is a Twitter fork and not the main repo.
Most of the "forks" are forks from Twitter employees' personal repos that were created before things got consolidated under Twitter's account. A few aren't and are called out as such. Which ones are missing proper attribution?
None of them, if you click through.
I just looked at the list and thought to myself, "Twitter released Mustache.js? They also released webrat? No.. that does not make much sense." and did not realize until I clicked through to those repos and checked to see if it was a fork.
I'm not suggesting Twitter is doing a Bad Thing(tm). I just think we under-appreciate those that create and release open source software and that any sort of nod of the head is a Good Thing(tm).