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Git hits for github: are you awesome enough to be in the top 10 in your city?

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47 pointsaaronfeng31 comments

Sadly its not "in your city" but "in twelve US cities."

I was really hoping that I could see if there were even other people who used Git in New Hampshire and how prominent they were.

True, I would love to expand. But within github api limit I'm limited to what cities I can pick. Maybe NH would come next :)

Get in touch with the GitHub people. They are some of the most reasonable people on the planet. I'm sure they'll help you somehow.

Totally, that would be cool.

I'd love to see Chicago up there if you get around those limits.

Chicago def should be on it. I'll add it next.

You could let users enter their a city and fetch the data locally via javascript. That way, the usage counts against their IP's API limit, not yours.

Edit: To be more clear, this would only work for showing the data to the user that requests it, not sending it back to the server for other users to see.

Yes, except then you're relying on data coming from untrusted users. How long do you think it would take before someone figures out a way to put themselves at the top of the list? ;)

Edit: OK. Assuming you're only looking at data locally, you'll probably run into API limits. Users are only allowed to make 60 requests to the API per minute. My guess is you need more than that to generate these statistics.

You have Houston but not Dallas? Actually, it would be better if it were by metro if you're not going to let the users choose their suburbs and what not.

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There's a joke to be made here.

Boulder? I understand all the other choices but didn't realize Boulder was such a hotbed of developers. Is it? (If you're taking votes, Los Angeles seems a significant omission at this stage.)

Perhaps not in total population but Boulder definitely has a solid startup presence, relatively speaking (SimpleGeo, OneRiot, TechStars, ...).

update: But certainly, LA and Chicago (mentioned elsewhere) are good additions.

Hmm... just glancing at the most-watched & most-forked totals, Boulder is ahead of both Atlanta and Houston -- for what it's worth (not much).

Besides startups the other replier mentioned, there's also a lot of bigger software-centric & tech companies here for a city this size. (IBM, Su--Oracle, Rally, Vexcel (now Microsoft), Rational (now IBM), Google...)

Boulder has a ton of developers, and really active communities in Ruby, Python and startups. Coffee shops and restaurants downtown at lunch time are a lot like ones in SOMA in SF: there's several tables' worth of nerds sitting around talking software or startups.

Looks like a recruiter's dashboard. :/

Are the results for "New York, NY" not mapped to "New York City"? Otherwise I'd be on at least two of those lists. I've never actually tried searching by networks in their api, only by language+filters.

Otherwise, looks nifty.

"New York, NY" is not. I have the data, but in that case, I can't tell if you are actually in the city. You can always append NYC to your current location :) I'm open to other possible suggestions.

I'd like to think that "New York, New York" and "New York, NY" are pretty much synonymous for "New York City".

How come there's a fixed list of cities? Why not let users search for a city?

Currently, I'm aggregating data from github since there's no way of getting those values live (to my knowledge). I'm staying with the limit of the api rule so I'm limited to how much data I can retrieve per week. Yes it would be awesome if I can do it for more cities.

Is the code on GH? If so, the people (myself included) who want to run this for their city could.

Currently no, yes, that's a great idea.

Well, my 'city' is not shown, but I think the answer is almost certainly yes since I doubt 10 people here have github accounts. It would be nice to be proved wrong about that.

So, evidently, it doesn't do any proximity analysis. I listed my location as "Limerick, PA, US", which is outside Philadelphia. It'd be interesting to add that capability.

Totally, I would love it add that. I actually have all PA data already.

That would sweet. Checking out Phoenix (interesting choice of city to include, BTW) I saw github names of people I know, but who, like me, don't live or work in Phoenix, but in neighboring towns. I'm guessing they (like many) opted for placing themselves in the nearest largest city.

Me, I went for Scottsdale, which borders Phoenix. "metro area" searches would be a very cool addition.

Very happy to see that Phoenix, AZ made the list.

My company's 3rd most followed and 3rd most repos in DC! (and I'm 2nd in gists and 6th in repos)

But it's DC so it doesn't count.

As it turns out, I AM awesome enough to be in the top 10 for my city (Boston).

Los Angeles seems like a glaring omission.

No Australian cities? Boo ;)

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