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It's definitely fun to mess around with. Nicely, done! Quick question: why do repo and gist counts cap at 100? I haven't looked at Github's API myself yet, so there might be a technical limitation here that I'm unaware of.

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Yeah, there are a lot of technical limitations that we had to work around. Mainly, everything is paginated with a max per_page of 100. We decided to only analyze the 100 most recent gists and repos to not have to worry about that.

For commits, however, we couldn't not analyze them, so we do a ton of processing. Basically, we loop over every one of your repos and loop over all of the pages of commits for that repo. For big repos (i.e. Facebook), that means we end up doing 100s of async API requests...it gets pretty intense.

It makes sense that you're analyzing only the first 100, but it would probably be cool to add the raw quantities of these things as a metric. Perhaps they shouldn't count towards the score, but it would be cool to display them, and the info's readily available from https://api.github.com/users/:uname

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