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Oh Jesus, please don't fill my professional tool with social gunk. What is this, a highschool? As a side note, recruiters are not on your side, they're on thei
by Sir_Substance 10y ago
Oh Jesus, please don't fill my professional tool with social gunk. What is this, a highschool?
As a side note, recruiters are not on your side, they're on their own side. Don't rely on them for anything, least of all securing your dream job.
- dominotw 10y agoIts not gunk. Stars is the first thing I check for social proof before using a project in my work. Higher stars is almost a guarantee of better quality and momentum.
- scrollaway 10y agoHigher star count is a guarantee of more visibility, that doesn't mean anything quality-wise and it doesn't mean much momentum-wise.
- dominotw 10y agoCurious if have any examples to back up your point? I've never seen a project with high start and low momentum, I don't mean dead projects ,obviously.
- Sir_Substance 10y ago>I've never seen a project with high start and low momentum, I don't mean dead projects ,obviously. "I've never seen this thing, except in this obvious and common case where it happens all the time, but other than that, literally never". Mate :/ In general, my first step in deciding whether projects are good is to google "<project name> review", and see what other developers and sysadmins have experienced with it. I have often found that a 5 stars system contains inadequate information density to provide me with guidance on the suitability of one project over another with respect to integrating it into my companies tech stack, although I appreciate that's a personal standpoint and that you may disagree.
- stonogo 10y agoAh yes, you'd like examples, with the exception of the largest class of examples. Well played.
- dozzie 10y agoI don't. I look at the documentation and at the source code. If it isn't up to par, it's junk regardless of how many stars it has.
- dominotw 10y agoYea ofcourse. I am just saying that stars == good correlation is really strong.
- bsder 10y agoAnd we're saying, "No, it's not." A project with lots of stars and rare commits is almost never better than one with a less stars but low-grade continuous activity. "Date of last commit" is probably FAR higher than any "social" bullshit in terms of quality.
- Sir_Substance 10y ago>"Date of last commit" is probably FAR higher than any "social" bullshit in terms of quality. That's the first thing I look at when I arrive on a github page, always.
- dominotw 10y agoI am obviously not talking about dead projects.