Use this tag for questions relevant with objects/entities/etc. that support the popularity concept.
Objects/entities/etc. can be sorted by popularity. For example, websites; Stackoverflow is more popular than the Meta.
Questions tagged [popularity]
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Why is SCTP not much used/known
I recently checked out the book "UNIX Network Programming, Vol. 1" by Richards Stevens and I found that there is a third transport layer standard besides TCP and UDP: SCTP.
Summary: SCTP is a transport-level protocol that is message-driven like…
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Are there any popularity / usage statistics available for the Free RCS/SCM/VCS systems?
Are there any surveys anywhere which report on number of projects and/or people using the assorted Free version control systems?
Also interesting is if a similar survey was one over time, to see how things have changed.
Obviously, it's hard to…
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Why isn't BLToolkit more popular?
While searching around the net for light, fast ORMs targeting .NET, I came across BLToolKit, which seems absolutely amazing in terms of performance, openness, maintainability, and flexibility.
However, I've also noticed that it has received very…
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Simple Popularity Algorithm
Summary
As Ted Jaspers wisely pointed out, the methodology I described in the original proposal back in 2012 is actually a special case of an exponential moving average. The beauty of this approach is that it can be calculated recursively, meaning…
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Deciding and implementing a trending algorithm in Django
I have a Django application in which I need to implement a simple trending/ranking algorithm. I'm very lost as a :
I have two models, Book and Reader. Every night, new books are added to my database. The number of readers for each book are updated…
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Before XML became a standard and given all its shortcomings, what made XML so popular?
Yes XML is human readable but so is comma delimited text and properties files.
XML is bloated, hard to parse, hard to modify in code, plus a ton of other problems that I can think about with it.
My questions is what are XML's most attractive…
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Popularity Algorithm
I'm making a digg-like website that is going to have a homepage with different categories. I want to display the most popular submissions.
Our rating system is simply "likes", like "I like this" and whatnot. We basically want to display the…
Dixon Crews
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Sorting A List Of Songs By Popularity
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…
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PHP MySQL Query most popular in last 24 hours
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…
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What are the popular, contemporary uses for Perl?
What are the popular, contemporary uses for Perl?
Edit
I should have been more specific. I was wondering more on the large scale (popular) what people are using Perl for rather than what it could be used for on the individual level.
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How to find stats for general trends of programming language popularity using google trends
I like to keep an eye on trending browsers/OSs/languages etc... I find google trends is a very useful resource sometimes but other times I can not get the information I want.
Example of very clear increase of Ubuntu (with 6 monthly peaks near…
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Is assembly the only low level programming language, and if not is it the most widely used?
I've started learning assembly recently and as I've looked across the internet I see more and more people saying that assembly is not useless, but it's also not worth the time to program things in a language that requires such time and effort…
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Implementing a visitor counter
I am a newbie and developing a website using ASP .Net 2.0 with C# 2005. I would like to add a facility to count the no. of visitors to my website. I have collected the basic informations to add this feature using Global.asax. I have made…
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Why LDAP is not popular?
We start to use LDAP and I wonder why LDAP is not that popular? I read that it has faster reads than database, however slower writes.
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Its the first time i use LDAP and i have been programming in enterprise for sometime now. That is the reason…
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Why is MySQL used so often in web development?
I have often wondered why MySQL has become so popular. Any ideas why? Are there specific reasons behind its success? (Please keep answers analytical)
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