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Re:Language complexity, measured by how many rules GitHub's ... by sdesol on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @05:35AM (#11666034)
If you are into novelty metrics, you might find the following interesting:

http://imgur.com/a/xhxtm

It shows how actively the gitignore files are modified.

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Re:Language complexity, measured by how many rules GitHub's ... by cloverich on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @11:07AM (#11667725)
"Novelty Metrics" -- I kind of want to put that on my resume just to see what happens with it. Or, I could imagine an entertaining blog existing solely based on that premise.
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Re:Language complexity, measured by how many rules GitHub's ... by kbenson on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @01:46PM (#11669079)
You might really enjoy the Strange Maps[1] section of bigthink.com. There are some real wonderful ones in the past entries. I have this in my feed, but look at it far too infrequently for how interesting it looks.

1: http://bigthink.com/articles?blog=strange-maps

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