The data engineers folks over at Trestle Technology have come up with a slightly crude tool for smashing, or indeed upholding, coder stereotypes. Turns out Swift developers are the most likely to have ‘hipster’ facial hair, according to the EigenCoder project’s results, which combines GitHub data with Microsoft’s Project Oxford ‘Face API’ to analyze the characteristics of coders. But to be fair, coders seem to be a pretty beardy group, looking at the graph. The team pulled the data of the top code contributors from the 25 trending repositories on GitHub, getting between 20 and 80 useable results for 13 programming languages. In the case of…
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