Re:Star Driven Development
by prepend on Thursday December 26, 2019 @09:32AM
(#21884014)
I’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.
Re:Star Driven Development
by shiyason on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @08:02PM
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Do 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!
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-g...