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Re:Google’s look, evolved by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @07:34PM (#10156530)
> One of our biggest problems was that since we tried to change everything at once, the metrics went haywire

Isn't that the problem with empirical methods in general? They are great for measuring the effect of small simple things (like small changes to a web page), but are much less effective in measuring bigger things (like say, programming language A vs. programming language B).

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Re:Google’s look, evolved by nostrademons on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @07:42PM (#10156552)
Absolutely. Business is an interesting field because you derive a fairly large advantage from being correct about reality, but that advantage counts for nothing if you're so slow that somebody else changes the reality while you're figuring it out.
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Re:Google’s look, evolved by lukestevens on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @10:23PM (#10157092)
That is a very succinct way of putting it, thank you.
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