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Stack of the month club

25 points by adamloving 14y ago

rurounijones 14y ago
I love these kinds of things since you can find out really interesting stuff. For the same reasons I like watchig interviews where people talk about the technologies they are using at their companies (like webpulp.tv ) The more information out there; the merrier.
duck 14y ago
Great idea... makes me think how that method could be used for a lot of things.
- hatu 14y ago
  I once used this type of a list to go through job postings and list the most in-demand skills companies are looking for. On a larger scale that for example would be a good resource.
swordswinger12 14y ago
I expected this to be a mailing list of very impressive/deep stack traces. Color me disappointed, but if someone made that I would be all over it.
- adamloving 14y ago
  That's a funny idea. I love it!
kibibu 14y ago
All of these developers prefer git/GitHub. Can anybody offer any reason why (religious wars aside) this beats Hg/Bitbucket? As far as I can tell, Bitbucket has unlimited free private repos, the same pull-request and team features, and has been around pretty much as long as GitHub. What am I missing out on?
- erikdared 14y ago
  Honestly I think it's mainly due to the fact that git and github have a greater mindshare than hg and bitbucket. That said I think either choice is great, they are solid and mature implementations of the DVCS paradigm and are miles ahead of older systems like SVN. I use a mix of both personally, hg at work and git/github for personal projects.
  - kibibu 14y ago
    Thanks. I also use hg/bitbucket at work. I might have a more serious crack at using Github for something personal to get a better idea.
- jasonlotito 14y ago
  What are you missing? The understanding you can easily use both.
  - kibibu 14y ago
    No, I understand this very well. My question was more about whether there are fundamental workflow issues that GitHub solves that Bitbucket does not?
- cmccabe 14y ago
  I think entire giant essays have been written about this topic. However, it boils down to a few things. Mercurial tends to choke on large repositories. Git doesn't. A lot of people know git. Not many people know mercurial. People like to bitch about git's command-line interface. But most of the quirks have been ironed out over time. What you're left with is a very UNIX-y program. If you understand the concepts then you will figure it out. git also has pretty good Windows support now, thanks to the GitHub client and others. I don't know much about Github versus BitBucket (or any other site.) I use GitHub because we use it at work and because I found it first. BitBucket now supports git repos, which might make it a contender. I get the feeling that you're more likely to get contributors if you start on GitHub, simply because people are more familiar with the site's interface. But nothing I put on Github has become mega-popular at this point, so I don't know.
tbeseda 14y ago
Listing Node.js as a framework pains me.

25 points by adamloving 14y ago

I love these kinds of things since you can find out really interesting stuff. For the same reasons I like watchig interviews where people talk about the technologies they are using at their companies (like webpulp.tv ) The more information out there; the merrier.

duck 14y ago

Great idea... makes me think how that method could be used for a lot of things.

hatu 14y ago
I once used this type of a list to go through job postings and list the most in-demand skills companies are looking for. On a larger scale that for example would be a good resource.

swordswinger12 14y ago

I expected this to be a mailing list of very impressive/deep stack traces. Color me disappointed, but if someone made that I would be all over it.

adamloving 14y ago
That's a funny idea. I love it!

kibibu 14y ago

All of these developers prefer git/GitHub. Can anybody offer any reason why (religious wars aside) this beats Hg/Bitbucket? As far as I can tell, Bitbucket has unlimited free private repos, the same pull-request and team features, and has been around pretty much as long as GitHub. What am I missing out on?

erikdared 14y ago
Honestly I think it's mainly due to the fact that git and github have a greater mindshare than hg and bitbucket. That said I think either choice is great, they are solid and mature implementations of the DVCS paradigm and are miles ahead of older systems like SVN. I use a mix of both personally, hg at work and git/github for personal projects.
- kibibu 14y ago
  Thanks. I also use hg/bitbucket at work. I might have a more serious crack at using Github for something personal to get a better idea.
jasonlotito 14y ago
What are you missing? The understanding you can easily use both.
- kibibu 14y ago
  No, I understand this very well. My question was more about whether there are fundamental workflow issues that GitHub solves that Bitbucket does not?
cmccabe 14y ago
I think entire giant essays have been written about this topic. However, it boils down to a few things. Mercurial tends to choke on large repositories. Git doesn't. A lot of people know git. Not many people know mercurial. People like to bitch about git's command-line interface. But most of the quirks have been ironed out over time. What you're left with is a very UNIX-y program. If you understand the concepts then you will figure it out. git also has pretty good Windows support now, thanks to the GitHub client and others. I don't know much about Github versus BitBucket (or any other site.) I use GitHub because we use it at work and because I found it first. BitBucket now supports git repos, which might make it a contender. I get the feeling that you're more likely to get contributors if you start on GitHub, simply because people are more familiar with the site's interface. But nothing I put on Github has become mega-popular at this point, so I don't know.

tbeseda 14y ago

Listing Node.js as a framework pains me.