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It's a cute idea, but I keep getting things like thousand-character Javascript one-liners, pieces of build logs, dependency lists, stack traces, and empty or deleted files. A little filtering would probably help out a lot, though.

I wonder if the results would be of any value to http://dijkstra.cs.virginia.edu/projects/readability/

ValueError ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

The debugger caught an exception in your WSGI application. You can now look at the traceback which led to the error. To switch between the interactive traceback and the plaintext one, you can click on the "Traceback" headline. From the text traceback you can also create a paste of it. For code execution mouse-over the frame you want to debug and click on the console icon on the right side.

You can execute arbitrary Python code in the stack frames and there are some extra helpers available for introspection:

dump() shows all variables in the frame dump(obj) dumps all that's known about the object

There needs to be two other buttons:

"Meh": which means I wouldn't use either.

"WTF??": (one for each side). This isn't just a "not vote up", but is a "major vote down".

I tend to agree with the need for "Meh". In order to make a good comparison, both sides need to be more similar. I mean, how can I compare a git diff to a line of css? Perhaps "Next" would sound nicer than "Meh", but the idea is the same. I'm not sold on the downvoting, however.

After a few tries one of the gists was empty; I wanted to vote for it (because the best code is no code) and got an Internal Server Error.

Cool idea! Was also pleasantly surprised to find my Python A* gist near the top of the toplist :) https://gist.github.com/1687840

Search by language would be lovely, if you ever get to it.

So a random gist from a lang on each side -- the real "my coding choice is better" metric

This is a lot of fun.

I seem to be getting a lot of gists that are distinctly not application code (ie diffs, make files, random text). I think you could really improve the signal:noise if you let people vote gists as "not applicable" or such.

I want to fork almost every gist and fix them!

The idea seems fun enough, but I'd like to see the same languages used on either side. Comparisons between different languages are a bit harder for me, especially since I'm not proficient in most languages (Java, .NET, Objective-C, Basic and C are my most used languages).

What do you use Basic for?!?

Renders a bit strange on the iPad. See screenshot here: http://puu.sh/wQlm

Ahh darn, the site is down before I got to play with it. Time to fire up a few more EC2 instances! get to it!

Not down for me, must be a local DNS solving or connection issue. Either that or it is client side, refresh your cookies/cache.

The project was written at #hackNmatch hackathon in Stockholm in 2 hours. The DNS might not have been propagated yet...

The page looks quirks on my iPad. Maybe it's a gist width problem.

It could be a way to filter down to the most popular gist's.

Or it could be some sort of language popularity measure.

Put two one-liners that do the same thing (not necessarily in the same language) side by side and let people choose.

Instead of gist maybe use rosettacode?

Okay, 2 minutes of use and I'm addicted.

Please add logins and comments and I will be your first sign up.

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Public response:

Most people I show say the same thing:

"god i hope they develop some kind of social side to it logins with comments and fixes for top ranked code you know, accuracy and symantics etc would be so good"

"Would be amazing if i could comment"

On another note, one friend said:

"it would be great for crowd sourcing optimisation"

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Updates:

Update: 10 minutes of use and I'm addicted.

Update: 15 minutes of use and I'm addicted, I've tweeted, my girlfriend has re-tweeted and I've liked. This site seriously needs some kind of social side to it - potential is not being fulfilled.

Update: Friends have seen my like and started liking.

Update: Lobbed towards Hexxeh, hopefully we can get a tweet from him or a blog post.

Update: So far a handful of friends have checked it out, hopefully a few uniques coming over and staying.

Are you in anyway associated with the project? Seem too much excited over something this trivial.

I am not associated in anyway whatsoever, this is not some kind of hype building, I just really like the project and would love to help it to grow and hopefully improve.

Just seemed fishy. First two accounts that commented have been created recently, and then your over the top excitement.

Ahhh, no sorry, I have been reading for a long time, I only signed up last night to post and I found it rather addictive, if you need proof of my existence I can point you to an MSN, a twitter and a facebook, as well as a hosted website bearing my name :)

I don't want to be mean, but do you really feel the need to update us with who you've shown this to, and who liked whose tweet, every 5 minutes? The signal to noise ratio in your comment is pretty low... In future could you keep it a little more concise, and less update-happy? Thanks.

Understood, my apologies :) I shall keep my enthusiasm to a lower tone from now on, thank you :)

Just shut up and take my money!!!!!

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