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Star Driven Development
- shiyason 7y agoDo you like awesome-[insert-lang] lists on Github? Did you wish that stars were displayed next to the repo name though? Use this chrome extension and make your wish come true!
- pwdisswordfish2 7y agolol no generics
- prepend 7y agoI’m worried that stars will become a sought after metric that people imbue with too much meaning. I like stars. I find them useful for quickly filtering amongst so many repos (eg, “foo has 1000 stars, bar has 1, lets read about foo first.”). But like Goodhart’s Law [0], if people start minmaxing for stars rather than the quality that stars are supposed to proxy, stars will stop being useful and could even be distracting. [0] https://towardsdatascience.com/unintended-consequences-and-goodharts-law-68d60a94705c https://towardsdatascience.com/unintended-consequences-and-g...