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- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3971990

- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3906143

- http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/tmlb5/meaningfu...

For those complaining about the stock photography:

https://github.com/giving/giving.github.com

Mmmmm. Can we do this without the stock photos. It's very... 90s. Which isn't really jiving with Bootstrap.

+1 Especially the "Programmer" who is hunched over typing up his written(!!) document and hanging with his 80's telephone.

Nice idea tho

I assumed at first due to the URL's appearance that this was an effort put together by GitHub, Inc. Makes me wonder how many other Github Pages sites out there are similarly confusing (or intentionally misleading - it looks like careers.github.com is available, for example).

There's potential there. You could grab http://ssl.github.com/ and you could probably fool a few users with a fake login screen.

Seems to be dead, not an update in over two months.

I've just put a project proposal there. https://github.com/giving/giving.github.com/issues/12. Hope it is of interest to the community and I can get some help.

Gotta love that stock photography

I like the idea of being connected to a scientist...other kinds of researchers, including journalists, would also have interesting projects to work on, particularly involving overlooked datasets.

But yeah, the stock photography should be changed...it's not mediocre, it's just detrimental to the point of discrediting the overall project. Just use icons that can serve as symbols...such as a glass beaker for science.

As someone who's tried to work with scientists in the past, you probably do not want to be connected to them.

They don't do Node.js, Coffeescript, Scala or Clojure. They do 1950's FORTRAN, know nothing else, and do not want to know anything else.

I got in trouble for being an elitist by suggesting we used Ruby for something. Ha!

What "scientists" are you talking about?

In my group, we use Python and Numpy almost exclusively. Some of us have been pushing for Haskell.

Let's flip your statement around a little:

"As someone who's tried to work with web designers in the past, you probably do not want to be connected to them. They do 1990s HTML 1.0 and flash, know nothing else, and do not want to know anything else."

Do you really need to categorize and dismiss all scientists that way? It certainly doesn't jive with my experiences, which only means that there's variance in the population.

Pah, the people I know in bio-informatics use Haskell, I do research on language and use Python, C and Coffeescript. Honestly, science is more diverse than high-performance simulations of the universe...

Get rid of the stock images - I didn't even bother reading the page after seeing them.

Woooah look at that programmer. A tie and a phone from 1492. Very hip.

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