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Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub

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Re: Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub

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Post by paxys »

Cyphase wrote: post #6

I'm wondering if AasishPokhrel created this repo for the purpose of being the billionth.

It's pretty easy to game this. Just keep creating repos till you hit # one billion and remove the old ones. Their API makes it trivial. The only issue will be rate limits, and other people simultaneously creating repos, so it's a matter of luck.

Re: Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub

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Post by maniacalhack0r »

Cyphase wrote: post #6

I'm wondering if AasishPokhrel created this repo for the purpose of being the billionth.

AasishPokhrel made 2 repos yday - shit and yep. no activity between may 17th and june 10th.

i have no idea if its possible to calculate the rate at which repos are being created and time your repo creation to hit vanity numbers

Re: Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub

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Post by SalariedSlave »

PenguinRevolver wrote: post #8
deadbabe wrote: post #7

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https://api.github.com/repositories/999999999 Which leads to https://github.com/sameepabadhuge/fork1

So the count includes forks?

Would be interesting to know the billionth non-fork source repo.

Re: Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub

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Post by raincole »

School-Cotton wrote: post #13

On a serious note, I'm a bit surprised that GitHub makes it trivial to compute the rate at which new repositories are created. Isn't that kind of information usually a corporate secret?

Is there any reason for GitHub to hide this information though? How could it be used against them?

(I understand many companies default to not expose any information unless forced otherwise.)

Re: Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub

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Post by cheschire »

School-Cotton wrote: post #13

On a serious note, I'm a bit surprised that GitHub makes it trivial to compute the rate at which new repositories are created. Isn't that kind of information usually a corporate secret?

When your moat is a billion wide, you tend to walk around in your underwear a bit more I guess.

Re: Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub

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Post by recursive »

paxys wrote: post #21
Cyphase wrote: post #6

I'm wondering if AasishPokhrel created this repo for the purpose of being the billionth.

It's pretty easy to game this. Just keep creating repos till you hit # one billion and remove the old ones. Their API makes it trivial. The only issue will be rate limits, and other people simultaneously creating repos, so it's a matter of luck.

I don't believe they will renumber the old ones. Also, it can't be trivial, since two people can try this, and only one can win.
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