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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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