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Re:Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub on Thursday February 26, 2015 @05:10PM (#9115913)
Glad you like it ! The database is about 20GB. All details about the import are on the readme : https://github.com/vdaubry/github-awards
Re:Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub on Thursday February 26, 2015 @05:08PM (#9115896)
No i havent updated it yet.
Re:Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub on Thursday February 26, 2015 @02:21PM (#9114698)
Hi, Vincent here, author of Github Awards. Thanks for pointing this out.

There is already a small note in footer stating that this site is no way affiliated with the Github company, i'll make that a lot more visible.

Re:Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub on Thursday February 26, 2015 @10:33AM (#9113000)
I'm using Google Geocoding API untill i reached the rate limit (2.5k calls / day) and Openstreetmap API for the rest
Re:Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub on Thursday February 26, 2015 @10:28AM (#9112970)
I added in the footer a small note explaining that this project is not related to the GitHub company, do you think i should make that more visible ?
Re:Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub on Thursday February 26, 2015 @10:27AM (#9112967)
What is your GitHub username ?

GitHub Archive data are not perfect, and there are also room for improvements in the import process.

Re:Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub on Thursday February 26, 2015 @10:18AM (#9112905)
The stars information comes from GitHub Archive : https://www.githubarchive.org/

There are some limitations, for example it doesn't include events before 2011

The concept of "star" has also changed several times (they are still called watchers in the API)

Re:Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub on Thursday February 26, 2015 @10:03AM (#9112819)
Hi,

I'm vincent author of GitHub Awards, if you have any questions feel free to ask

Re:Show HN: A workshop on how to use Vim plugins on Thursday February 26, 2015 @04:41AM (#9111784)
Most of my co-worker using Vim as their primary editor happens to be really good at their job. (Of course I wouldn't say that using Vim 'means' you're a good developers!)
Lots of very well summarized stuff. But web development has changed so much since 2002 !

While all of these subjects are still relevant : debug, log, memory, unit test, etc. I think nowaday a beginner will rapidly face broader problems in his career :

.Deployment / monitoring / Devops / Cloud

.Frontend VS Backend development

.Mobile development

All these subjects were a lot more isolated 13 years ago.

What he calls "heavy tools" like database, Full text search, they have all become a lot more common today. I wouldn't be surprised that a young developer will have to experience 2 or 3 different databases the first years he starts working (SQL / redis / mongo, etc)

Re:Magic on Monday February 23, 2015 @09:06AM (#9094313)
Maybe it's me but i don't feel confident giving my credit card after reading the home page. After reading the whole page i understand the business but my first impression was really somewhere between "is this a joke ? / they are stealing credit card numbers"

Maybe the very cheap design discredit the whole project.