Half of Github's success is because Git was so successful and easy to use. People started using Git first, and then Github came along and made things more social.
There is no fundamental equivalent to Git in basic science or engineering research. Until you have something that is relatively popular and makes collaboration relatively easy to use, it will be difficult to have a "GitHub of Science".
Great advice! You sound like you have a lot of experience in server security.
What is your recommendation on strong passwords? Also, should all passwords on a system be different (login passwords for different servers, email passwords, etc...), and if so, how do you keep track of all of them?
Thanks for creating this and open-sourcing this great app!
One question: Does aggregates.html work? I can see that metrics are being recorded in mongodb, but it does not load the js properly to display the hourly, daily, and weekly metrics. I can get everything else to work fine (in index.html). Thanks!
It looks really cool!, but I don't understand how it is a 24 hour shot. It just looks like a tiny planet with a house on top. Could somebody please explain the image?
(The description by the author in the post is complicated)
There are many cities in the county of San Diego. The city of San Diego (where you are suggesting that the 200k number came from) is about 10-20% of the size of the county of San Diego.
They should make the size of the bubble smaller to only cover the area of the city like you are saying.
The statistics on this infographic are misleading. It does not cost 200,000 to buy a house in San Diego or San Jose!
Maybe the average for downtown San Jose and San Diego are close to 200k, but that is the poorest area of both cities and not what should be used to compare. The green bubble on the point for San Diego should be much much smaller in radius(like miniscule), otherwise you think the 200k number refers to the entire city!
People should not be using this to make informed decisions (obviously).
With the 200+ million gmail email addresses that Google has access to, Google can instantly become a major competitor to Groupon & LivingSocial assuming a certain percentage of gmail users agree to try it.
It seems that each large internet company has its own deals site now: Google with Google Offers, Amazon with LivingSocial, eBay with Groupon, and Facebook seems to be developing its own type of daily-deals advertising.
I wonder what Apple and Microsoft will do. Both of them probably have something in the works....
LivingSocial disabled this already (the trick doesn't work any more), and all people who tried this trick earlier today will simply get an email tomorrow saying that they are not eligible because they ordered more than 1 gift certificate.
There's simply too much money at stake for LivingSocial not to make sure that people only get 1 gift certificate each.
Does anybody here also notice a lag during Google voice calls?
Sometimes the lag is up to half a second or one second, and it can really make conversations difficult because you start interrupting the other person (even though you don't realize it and think you started talking when there was a lull in the conversation).
Amazon's execution with EC2 over the past few years has been excellent. If Amazon makes a Rails version of Beanstalk, Heroku should be worried as Beanstalk could take some market share from Heroku.
There is no fundamental equivalent to Git in basic science or engineering research. Until you have something that is relatively popular and makes collaboration relatively easy to use, it will be difficult to have a "GitHub of Science".