Aside from the constructive criticism, it might help usability is you made your algorithm more transparent so users could see why they are essentially irrelevant (if they expected otherwise) and why some others are getting what appears to be arbitrarily high rankings. But, I do like this idea, and it would certainly benefit me if you found a way to make it universally indicative of a coder's skill. But that's hard. 1. It's still hard to tell without sitting a hacker down and testing them, 2. popularity does affect page rank. Some highly useful repositories are lost in a sea of absolutely useless, but popular programming playthings.
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#32This is similar to what Matt Biddulph wrote back in 2010. See here: https://github.com/mattb/flotsam/tree/master/github-recruitm...
this is actually where the idea came from.
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#33So lets pretend project popularity is a good measure for programmers. But what if somebody is contributing to other popular projects or is part of an organization that has popular projects?
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#341) Searched for "San Francisco, CA" and it was returning people from India.... ?
2) Its 2011, githire.com should work the same as www.githire.com. This is my biggest pet peeve with any site.
3) The "add info" button on a user page goes to http://www.githire.com/user/edit which simply loads the user info for a username of edit on github.
Overall an interesting idea, but maybe unveiled a bit prematurely.
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#35I'm mildly confused. What repository is listed alongside a user? My user ( http://www.githire.com/user/Shadowfiend ) shows a repository that, to my knowledge, I've never created, forked, or contributed to...
I have the same problem with my own page on this site.
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#36Looks like is not showing the commits on other projects or the organizations you belong to. It's an interesting idea though.
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#37As far as I can tell, this equates 'best programmers' with people who run repositories for popular projects. I suppose if you think Justin Bieber and various top of the charts pop stars are the best musicians it makes sense. I think that good programmers can be involved in popular projects but being involved in a popular project on github shouldn't be the defining characteristic of a 'good programmer'.
I think that it depends on what you're hiring for. This is analogous to Gladwell's, "there is no perfect pepsi, only perfect pepsis"
Ideally, githire should let one select from a few different hiring algorithms, which rank people differently.
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#38As far as I can tell, this equates 'best programmers' with people who run repositories for popular projects. I suppose if you think Justin Bieber and various top of the charts pop stars are the best musicians it makes sense. I think that good programmers can be involved in popular projects but being involved in a popular project on github shouldn't be the defining characteristic of a 'good programmer'.
I think that it depends on what you're hiring for. This is analogous to Gladwell's, "there is no perfect pepsi, only perfect pepsis" Ideally, githire should let one select from a few different hiring algorithms, which rank people differently.
Malcolm Gladwell is not a management consultant.
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#39I 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.
I always thought Columbus had a pretty good tech scene going on? EdgeCase, Leandog, etc always represent at conferences and such.
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#40There's something wrong. http://www.githire.com/user/parse has rank of 10 and doesn't own the project shown on the page.