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abraham on Feb 22, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amount of profanity in git commit messages per pro...

What about the process is broken? Did you read the code and find bugs? With a total commit count of 929857 missing a single commit to round out to a perfectly even number of commits in each language is insignificant.

Retric on Feb 23, 2011 [–]

Or he had 929857 commit's and then he randomly sampled an equal number for each language. Thus, no division etc.

apotheon on Feb 24, 2011 | [–]

Then, of course, you have problems of sample size. Nearly a million commits is a pretty good sample size; a hundred, not so much.

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