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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with social media pressure on you... by daenney on Sunday July 12, 2015 @01:42PM (#9874229)
But how do you measure that quality? Based on amount of contributions? Based on +1's they've received on comments?
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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with social media pressure on you... by xmj on Sunday July 12, 2015 @01:55PM (#9874274)
Based on lines changed, merge requests accepted/rejected, etc etc.

You know, GitHub developers are quite smart.

They could just write their own weighting algorithm if they wanted to. :-)

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with social media pressure on you... by 672723074828 on Sunday July 12, 2015 @02:34PM (#9874395)
Those are absolutely awful metrics to use when measuring a developer's ability and talent, or the quality of this developer's contributions. They are also extremely easy to game, too.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with social media pressure on you... by xmj on Sunday July 12, 2015 @09:05PM (#9875785)
Yes, that's why I trust GitHub to come up with a (proprietary, unreleased) algorithm a la PageRank that won't easily be game-able.
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