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33 points by jyz 12y ago

ozh 12y ago
Why push a new document every day instead of simply updating the document? This is git, it's easy to track changes...
- coherentpony 12y ago
  Because perhaps someone wants to look at trends over time. Doing it this way means that you don't have to scour through the git history to get your data. Also, scouring the git history, as you suggest, assumes that each commit corresponds to exactly one daily update. What if there are commits that fix typos or other errors? How do you programmatically skip over those? Pushing a new document every day is the correct choice here.
  - Grue3 12y ago
    No, the correct choice would be using one file and tags for each date. To fix a typo you just go to appropriate tag and make a commit.
    - thu 12y ago
      "correct" w.r.t. what ? A checkout (or a tarball as offered by GitHub) of the repo is all those files, which is probably what most people want.
    - coherentpony 12y ago
      I didn't think about tags. That's a fair point.
  - deleted 12y ago
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lmedinas 12y ago
This is the trending GitHub repositories for javascript, objc and go. I would expect also for C/C++, Java, Ruby, Python and others.
beagle3 12y ago
That's nice. Is there anything like freshmeat that would show new releases?
plg 12y ago
"Best" == "trending" ???
- szatkus 12y ago
  Even in README they wrote "most popular", not "best". Justin Bieber is also popular...
  - yaph 12y ago
    Also thought of Justin Bieber as a good example of popularity != quality.
jpswade 12y ago
You should use directories for hierarchy instead of a very long unwieldy list. Try 2014->08->2014-08-06.md
- deleted 12y ago
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yaph 12y ago
For me personally both objective c and go are not that interesting, so I find http://www.coolgithubprojects.com/ http://www.coolgithubprojects.com/ more useful.
- mikegriff 12y ago
  That looks pretty good. Is there a way to filter by language, or can you just order by language? And it'd be good if he got rid of the greengrocer's apostrophes[1]. [1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/greengrocer%27s_apostrophe http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/greengrocer%27s_apostrophe
  - yaph 12y ago
    Right now you cannot filter, but this is something the author said to be working on. You can see the discussion on Reddit here http://www.reddit.com/r/coolgithubprojects/comments/2b9vph/rcoolgithubprojectss_new_daily_aggregator_website/ http://www.reddit.com/r/coolgithubprojects/comments/2b9vph/r...
- j_s 12y ago
  Including https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness - a curated list of curated lists of the best of Github and elsewhere (found there as the month's coolgithubproject)

33 points by jyz 12y ago

ozh 12y ago

Why push a new document every day instead of simply updating the document? This is git, it's easy to track changes...

coherentpony 12y ago
Because perhaps someone wants to look at trends over time. Doing it this way means that you don't have to scour through the git history to get your data. Also, scouring the git history, as you suggest, assumes that each commit corresponds to exactly one daily update. What if there are commits that fix typos or other errors? How do you programmatically skip over those? Pushing a new document every day is the correct choice here.
- Grue3 12y ago
  No, the correct choice would be using one file and tags for each date. To fix a typo you just go to appropriate tag and make a commit.
  - thu 12y ago
    "correct" w.r.t. what ? A checkout (or a tarball as offered by GitHub) of the repo is all those files, which is probably what most people want.
  - coherentpony 12y ago
    I didn't think about tags. That's a fair point.
- deleted 12y ago
  [deleted]

lmedinas 12y ago

This is the trending GitHub repositories for javascript, objc and go. I would expect also for C/C++, Java, Ruby, Python and others.

beagle3 12y ago

That's nice. Is there anything like freshmeat that would show new releases?

plg 12y ago

"Best" == "trending" ???

szatkus 12y ago
Even in README they wrote "most popular", not "best". Justin Bieber is also popular...
- yaph 12y ago
  Also thought of Justin Bieber as a good example of popularity != quality.

jpswade 12y ago

You should use directories for hierarchy instead of a very long unwieldy list. Try 2014->08->2014-08-06.md

deleted 12y ago
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yaph 12y ago

For me personally both objective c and go are not that interesting, so I find http://www.coolgithubprojects.com/ http://www.coolgithubprojects.com/ more useful.

mikegriff 12y ago
That looks pretty good. Is there a way to filter by language, or can you just order by language? And it'd be good if he got rid of the greengrocer's apostrophes[1]. [1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/greengrocer%27s_apostrophe http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/greengrocer%27s_apostrophe
- yaph 12y ago
  Right now you cannot filter, but this is something the author said to be working on. You can see the discussion on Reddit here http://www.reddit.com/r/coolgithubprojects/comments/2b9vph/rcoolgithubprojectss_new_daily_aggregator_website/ http://www.reddit.com/r/coolgithubprojects/comments/2b9vph/r...
j_s 12y ago
Including https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness - a curated list of curated lists of the best of Github and elsewhere (found there as the month's coolgithubproject)