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29 pointsjlsync38 comments

Read the bar at the bottom:

    Lovingly (and satirically) created by your friends at test double. Designed by Derek Briggs.

It's not meant to be serious, although I'm not sure what the point is.

Edit: It seems to be (perhaps unintentionally) clickbait for programmers. We can't seem to resist visiting a website that claims to rate our code quality.

This snippet sheds some light:

b=["Thoughtfulness of Names","Expressiveness of Tests","Empathy for Maintainers","Future-proof Avoidance","Conscientious Logging","Commit Message Clarity","Dependency Restraint","Release Strategy","Coherent Versioning","Convention Adherance","Pairing — Navigation","Pairing — Driving","Expectation Management","Googling for Answers","Respectful of Others"],n=function(){return _(b).chain().shuffle().first(5).value()},p=function(b){return _(a).include(b)?[96,98]:[0,40,60,70,80,85,90]},o=function(a){return null==a&&(a=[0]),_(a).chain().map(function(a){return _.random(a,100)}).sample().value()},c={59:"F",63:"D-",66:"D",69:"D+",73:"C-",76:"C",79:"C+",83:"B-",86:"B",89:"B+",93:"A-",96:"A",100:"A+"}

["pixeljanitor","bkeepers","tkaufman","searls","jasonkarns","andrewvida","theotherzach","bostonaholic","davemo","neall","kbaribeau","danthompson","crebma","dustintinney"]

Those guys all get an A+.

YHBT!

"although I'm not sure what the point is"

satire, clearly.

wether or not it's good satire is up for debate.

If only rating code could be done that easily...

"Tell the world you're a C+ developer!" (sic)

it tells me, after reviewing my code, and saying my non-existent tests are excellent.

I think I'll demur.

Edit: looking at the source, C+ is meant to be the grade, not the language, which makes more sense, even if this is just a fun farce.

C+ is a language?

It is a littlebit better C.

Is there somewhere which gives an explanation of what I'm being graded on and why a given grade was assigned?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9427667

That's totally key IMO; even a link to the grading code would go some distance to that goal.

EDIT: Ok, I'm starting to think this whole site is some kind of a joke.

It is http://ismycodegood.com/#asdgpuhashtuhqwiertjhl;hadjsgjfaw;h...

Well nuts, that guy is clearly a much better coder than I am!

This.

I mean, Googling for Answers?!

Looks like the output is random when you incognito.

I have a feeling it's not serious.

> Lovingly (and satirically) created by your friends at...

heh, that's so weird that my incognito and nonincognito results for the same username differ. And it looks like you can put anything in: http://ismycodegood.com/#thispersondoesntexist

Pretty sure it doesn't even make a network request-- looks like it just randomly generates each score, then stores them in local storage so that entering the same username more than once will give the same result.

Confirmed.

http://ismycodegood.com/#kk'kp[k\\

proof that this is random

This seems to be part of a new trend of HN Clickbait...

Next thing you know Buzzfeed will try to buy the site.

Hey HN, I actually made this site as a companion to my RailsConf talk yesterday (I'm sure it was humorously confusing out of context).

The talk's slides are up here: https://speakerdeck.com/searls/sometimes-a-controller-is-jus...

And video here (better versions coming soon): https://youtu.be/LdWMcs9EEOE?t=2h56m

Humorously I joked about it hitting HN during the talk, and then it actually did. We as developers can't resist something that'll quantify for us whether we're good at writing software, even when we know it's flawed.

I was expecting a big "NO".

Nice, I'm an A class Developer! My secret: do very little on GitHub.

It's completely randomly generated.

Hint: If you type in a GitHub username that doesn't exist like "IBetThisUserDoesNotExist" you still get a grade :)

I saw this being launched live here in this talk http://railsconf.com/program#prop_897

https://youtu.be/LdWMcs9EEOE?t=3h24s

(I can't seem to link accurately into the moving live stream)

This tool makes as much sense as most project managers I've met. (It doesn't, it's just a joke)

torvalds

Overall grade: C

Commit Message Clarity - F

Conscientious Logging - B+

Release Strategy - B-

Expressiveness of Tests - B+

Respectful of Others - D-

http://ismycodegood.com/#zjfsdhaklvhuithsjvniqurehjcvheauirt... Yes, it's random.

Release Strategy, Future-proof Avoidance and Commit Message Clarity have nothing to do with determining if the code is good.

You should change the name of the website to something like : Are you a good contributer ?

edit : Oh it's a joke ? ha. ha. ha.

Those are funny sometimes. I like the "Empathy for Maintainers" one.

Torvalds:

Empathy for Maintainers: C-

Future-proof Avoidance: C-

Conscientious Logging: A+

Googling for Answers: B

Commit Message Clarity: B-

https://i.imgur.com/Lwu64Ms.jpg

I got a B+ and Im pretty sure Ive never published anything with my GitHub account.

Thanks for complementing me for my tests? (That I never wrote)

Definitely random as I got an A- and trovalds got a C o_O

straight A+s for the creator[1]

[1]http://ismycodegood.com/#pixeljanitor

I spy 3 A's... even if their total is A+

This is total crap.

By the law of headlines, no. Which I agree with!

Got a solid B+. This reminds me of college.

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