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Someone makes a joke post with parody github achievements. Someone else then uses a public dataset to see how many people have these parody achievement. Hacker News: "Gamifying everything is terrible" I think getting angry about everything including parody github achievements is terrible.
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because these achievements are potentially interesting metadata about your work. no one writes software for metadata. people write software, they push it to GitHub, and GitHub gives them achievements which may provide a fraction of a second of amusement. let people enjoy themselves a little, sheesh.
no one writes software for metadata They didn't used to because there was no incentive to do anything but a good job. Now there is an incentive to accumulate metadata. And just like thumbs on Facebook or points on StackOverflow, it will be gamed. It will be trolled. All you've done is take the incentive of "earn a good reputation by publishing quality work" and open the platform to people who only care about "Ooh, sh…
> They didn't used to because there was no incentive to do anything but a good job.
Whenever I'm leaving a job, I keep a look-out for opportunities to change lines that rarely change. Things like doctype declarations, blank lines, closing braces, stuff like that. If I can change them, my name is memorialized longer in the `git blame` of projects.
People will find ways to gamify everything. It's quite often a release valve for stress or boredom.
The "This is fine" achievement is funny but doesn't seem right. The top user ppdemo indeed has a repo where he apparently creates one issue every minute, but there's only a few open issues so he must be deleting them too: https://github.com/pddemo/demo
So far, my tool show 54 thousand issues were created by a single person in the last 6 weeks.
Full disclosure: This is my tool.
i'd hate to wake up one day and find that HN was directing thousands of people to my github profile because i had closed more issues as "wontfix" than any other person on github.
Neat! People complaining about 'gamifying github' seem to be greatly over-estimating the author's goal here. Also neat to learn about the free dataset uploaded to https://ghe.clickhouse.tech/ .
> greatly over-estimating the author's goal here Yeah it is clearly a showcase for ClickHouse which is worth bragging about since it is quite performant. And it has a very strong community as the following shows: https://devboard.gitsense.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse I am honestly not sure if my solution can handle HackerNews at this point since generating deep insights for ClickHouse (which has a lot of history) is ver…
Having to scroll back to the top of the modals to close them is infuriating. Should just be able to click in the gray surrounding them to close them.
on one hand, this is kinda funny. on the other, it seems to be in a little bit poor taste to be highlighting random non-famous people's negative "accomplishments" on a leaderboard like this. i'd hate to wake up one day and find that HN was directing thousands of people to my github profile because i had closed more issues as "wontfix" than any other person on github.
We (Brave Software) do all of our company work on GitHub and have over 10k issues in our main repo. Lots of us falling under `Ideas Person` for opening issues tracking bugs/feature requests/etc. No shame in working in the public