I thought the most common file names had some peculiar results.
> the filename “15” & “s15” made the top 50 most popular filenames
Anyone know why?
https://boyter.org/posts/an-informal-survey-of-10-million-gi...
> the filename “15” & “s15” made the top 50 most popular filenames
Anyone know why?
https://boyter.org/posts/an-informal-survey-of-10-million-gi...
Plain 15 is trickier. GitHub's search is too fuzzy to see a pattern at a quick glance, but again it seems that JavaScript is the culprit with a disproportionately high number of filename:15 results compared to filename:14 or filename:16.
15 is also a common number in coding problem sets that people post to GitHub. It’s a stretch but it might be something to do with 2015 being a year that has a lot of coursework commits, and 15 is a pretty low number (i.e. higher probability a student posts solutions to #1-15 than #1-19).
The same goes for schoolwork. Many people do online MIT and Stanford courses that are from previous years ~2012-2016, but there has been less time elapsed for students to post answers from 2016,17,18,19)
This is mostly conjecture, so I hope someone has a better answer!