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Re:GitHub Star History Graph by yreg on Saturday May 28, 2022 @08:03PM (#31544976)
So you are saying it represents which technologies the community considers cool?

Because that's exactly the context in which I'm quoting it :)

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Re:GitHub Star History Graph by naikrovek on Saturday May 28, 2022 @08:51PM (#31545183)
no I'm saying it isn't a good view into what people actually like. it's a view into what they want the world to be like.

people respond to surveys according to what they want the survey results to be, and not how things actually are.

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Re:GitHub Star History Graph by mountainriver on Saturday May 28, 2022 @09:39PM (#31545461)
Isn’t that a lot of what’s cool technology is?
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