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Re:My journey from high school to a feature in Forbes (thank... by tskaiser on Thursday December 22, 2016 @01:36PM (#13239291)
While it is an outlier it is also proof that it is a poor system of measurement.
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Re:My journey from high school to a feature in Forbes (thank... by bcook on Thursday December 22, 2016 @02:13PM (#13239551)
It is? I think the problem is how we (mis)interpret the data to mean anything more than what it actually says.
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Re:My journey from high school to a feature in Forbes (thank... by wlesieutre on Thursday December 22, 2016 @02:49PM (#13239805)
So what's the takeaway, "Repo stars are an accurate measurement of how many stars a repo has"?
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