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		icefox on Jan 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text a... I tossed together git-achievements one weekend for fun ( https://github.com/icefox/git-achievements ) and it has taken off as the most popular project I have ever made with hundreds of forks and watchers. There is something about Achievements that people _really_ enjoy.

kevinh on Jan 20, 2012 [–]

I'm not surprised. Achievements are another form of positive feedback and in the case of programming, can provide an additional incentive for continuing to code.

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