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		jackolas on April 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Calculate your GitHub hacker score This makes me curious is there any reason why the users couldn't provide the data themselves or poll the API via javascript?

konsl on April 21, 2011 [–]

Since we're using BackType as well to calculate the score, it was easier to do both requests server-side. We pre-ran a long list of popular users and all of their followers, but guess we didn't reach enough people :(

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