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Re: GitHub profile achievements

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Post by tylerhannan » Wed, Jul 12, 2023, 9:47 AM UTC

sdesol wrote: post #51

tylerhannan wrote: post #48

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That would be https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=zX41ZdbW https://github.com/ClickHouse/github-explorer

Thanks. For a CTO, he is extremely active in the community. Only the ClickHouse robot is on par with his engagement. I'll reach out to him to see if ClickHouse is a viable option as my plan is to replace GitHub's insights tab with a useful dashboard (this is why DevBoard has such an minimal look), so I'll need a very performant DB that can work with my queries.

We are lucky to have him. It also helps that he was the founding engineer on the product.

Also, feel free to hit us up in GH (or we have a Slack). ClickHouse is used for a number of dashboarding implementations. It should work...but, as always, proof is in the testing.

Good luck! (and OMG, a better insights tab would make me a happy human)

Re: GitHub profile achievements

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Post by prepend » Wed, Jul 12, 2023, 11:24 AM UTC

bawolff wrote: post #52

swozey wrote: post #29

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Why do tens of millions of video gamers work to get to 100% completion and various goofy achievements in their games? Why does Spotify Rewind get posted every year? Some of us find it fun and neat to see certain things/statistics we've achieved/ruined over time.

But life is not a game. You cannot get 100% completion of creating open source software. These statistics (as well as the real githu badges) are bad and not correlated with what the whole point of it all is.

Obligatory reference to Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse [0] as some say, and I think it’s a pretty pleasant way of looking at it, that life is indeed a game.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_and_Infinite_Games

Re: GitHub profile achievements

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Post by prepend » Wed, Jul 12, 2023, 11:25 AM UTC

lagniappe wrote: post #56

bawolff wrote: post #52

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But life is not a game. You cannot get 100% completion of creating open source software. These statistics (as well as the real githu badges) are bad and not correlated with what the whole point of it all is.

I find myself wondering what the point of it all is. If anybody knows, holler.

The purpose is to maximize hours played on civ6 as measured by Steam.

Re: GitHub profile achievements

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Post by themoonisachees » Thu, Jul 13, 2023, 8:39 AM UTC

thaliaarchi wrote: post #61

I’m surprised by the low counts for Patient Skeleton. I would have thought stale PRs would be merged more frequently.

I mean, by definition they aren't.

Also a stale PR is either based on a codebase so old merging makes no sense or the project has been abandonned therefore the maintainer has no need to merge.