I know this question has been asked a million times in various ways by different businesses, but I'm wondering the community's opinion on it [There's this question, but in the fast-moving world of tech, a year is a long time]. For hypotheoretical purposes, let's consider a website where users can watch videos, a la YouTube, Hulu, etc. (a...
Ruby is the most popular language at Github by far. Compare that with the questions at Stack Overflow or the TIOBE index. What is the reason for this difference in relative popularity in different places? ...
I am asking here from the perspective of a C programmer using mostly Unix. Is it still worth it to do system programming in C? ...
In each search in Google one can see number of google pages found. Is it possible to find what was this number in the past? ...
This is for http://cssfingerprint.com I have a largish database (~100M rows) of websites. This includes both main domains (both 2LD and 3LD) and particular URLs scraped from those domains (whether hosted there [like most blogs] or only linked from it [like Digg], and with a reference to the host domain). I also scrape the Alexa top mil...
I would like to know if there is any easy way to rank blog articles by counting how many times they have been retweeted / digg'ed / buzz'ed and if there is an existing api for it. The idea would be to keep important 'stories' at the top of the blog timeline. ...
Consider the following table which has the fields - id (int) and date_created (datetime): id date_created 1 2010-02-25 12:25:32 2 2010-02-26 13:40:37 3 2010-03-01 12:02:22 4 2010-03-01 12:10:23 5 2010-03-02 10:10:09 6 2010-03-03 12:45:03 I want to know the busiest/most popular hour of t...
This question may not directly relate to programming. I have noticed that the technology of today has gone mobile. I want to go mobile with it. What is the most popular mobile OS?(excluding iPhone OS. Sorry, I don't have a Mac to develop on) Some choices could be BlackBerry OS, Windows Phone, Symbian OS, Android OS, etc. I want to make a...
Hi folks, I've been looking into popularity algorithms used on sites such as Reddit, Digg and even Stackoverflow. Reddit algorithm: t = (time of entry post) - (Dec 8, 2005) x = upvotes - downvotes y = {1 if x > 0, 0 if x = 0, -1 if x < 0) z = {1 if x < 0, otherwise x} log(z) + (y * t)/45000 I have always performed simple orderin...
I am needing to create a web service, so the first thing I did of course was go to google If you look in those results, you'll see nothing but things about ASMX, which apparently is dubbed legacy technology to be replaced by WCF. Why is it that ASMX is still so vastly popular compared to WCF? (of course, on SO WCF is way more popular.. ...
We have a website that contains a database of places. For each place our users are able to take one of the follow actions which we record: VIEW - View it's profile RATING - Rate it on a scale of 1-5 stars REVIEW - Review it COMPLETED - Mark that they've been there WISH LIST - Mark that they want to go there FAVORITE - Mark that it's on...
Hi all, I have been using JBoss Seam now for over a year and still haven't seen much acceptance here in the US. My metrics are, the number of jobs that indicate JBoss Seam and number of people talking about JBoss Seam (Java groups / JBoss Seam groups, etc.). Is JBoss Seam more popular outside the US? Walter ...
Hi all, I'm working on an information system (in C#) that (while my users use it) gathers statistical data on what pieces of information (tables & records) each user is requesting the most, and what parts of the interface he/she uses most. I'm using this statistical data to make the application adaptive to the user's needs, both in the...
I have some pages on a website and I have to create an ordering based on "popularity"/"activity" The parameters that I have to use are: views to the page comments made on the page (there is a form at the bottom where uses can make comments) clicks made to the "like it" icon Are there any standards for what a formula for popularity w...
If you look at SharpCrafters, the front page has a cool component that shows how popular certain search terms are, with larger text for more popular terms. I've seen this around the web in different places, especially blogs. What is this called in general, and what specific implementations exist? ...
Say I want to get ten records with the MOST likes in the last 24 hours. Here's what I have so far: $date = date("o-m-d"); $query = "SELECT date_created,COUNT(to),from,to FROM likes WHERE date_created LIKE '$date%' GROUP BY to ORDER BY COUNT(to) DESC LIMIT 10"; The problem with that is that it only gets the most liked from THAT DAY, no...
what is the relation between popularity and competition in SEO field? i don't mean the formula.i mean the conceptional relation. i mean can we say more competition cause more popularity or viseversa,more popularity cause more competition? more competition about a topic means it is general that many sites talk about it and so maybe more ...
For student council this year, I'm on the "songs" committee, we pick the songs. Unfortunately, the kids at the dances always end up hating some of the stupid song choices. I thought I could make it different this year. Last thursday, I created a simple PHP application so kids could submit songs into the database, supplying a song name, a...
Each product a product_date_added which is a Date field contained the date it was added. They also have a product_views which is an int field containing how many times a product has been viewed. To display products by popularity, I us an algorithm to calculate how many hits per day a product has. SELECT AVG(product_views / DATEDI...
I'm using a customized version of Hacker News popularity algorithm for my social site (items with a number of likes and comments). The algorithm works perfectly but I don't know how to update item scorings correctly (I'm storing the score in item model as meta data). Now I'm just updating scores on every new like and comment for items ...