Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programming language

Re:Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programmin... by lawfulfalafel on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @03:46PM (#2251491)

Dude, no. I think he was talking about how you can't tell how the size of the user base of a language is affecting the ranking. So, for example, only 1% of all projects could be in Java, but the swearing could be frequent enough to make it have ~15% of all curse words.

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Re:Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programmin... by abraham on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @04:52PM (#2251739)

> Note that I ripped an equal amount of commit messages per language so the results aren't based on how many projects there are per language.

All the languages are equally represented by commit count.

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Re:Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programmin... by saraid216 on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @05:06PM (#2251793)

but his total number is 929857, which is not divisible by 8

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Re:Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programmin... by abraham on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @05:13PM (#2251811)

What a bummer... The percentages might be off by a fraction of a fraction of a percent...

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Re:Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programmin... by saraid216 on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @05:25PM (#2251849)

I see no reason to believe that, given his process for ripping an "equal" number of commit messages per language was broken, that anything else even approaches validity. It's simple arithmetic; a grade schooler who notices that the last number is 7 would realize something's off.

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Re:Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programmin... by abraham on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @05:33PM (#2251893)

What about the process is broken? Did you read the code and find bugs? With a total commit count of 929857 missing a single commit to round out to a perfectly even number of commits in each language is insignificant.

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Re:Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programmin... by Retric on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @09:46PM (#2252765)

Or he had 929857 commit's and then he randomly sampled an equal number for each language. Thus, no division etc.

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Re:Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programmin... by apotheon on Thursday February 24, 2011 @02:41PM (#2259496)

Then, of course, you have problems of sample size. Nearly a million commits is a pretty good sample size; a hundred, not so much.

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Re:Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programmin... by lawfulfalafel on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @05:05PM (#2251792)

Sorry, my bad.

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