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"Please star my repo so I can get a job" is brutal
As someone who maintained popular open source repos for >5 years, not once did I have a recruiter care about it (I made sure to ask!)
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Or that they're just a person who knows how to game stars. As Goodfart says, "When a measure becomes a target, it gets gamed beyond usefulness."
Although commits can be gamed on GitHub, stars are significantly harder to game as they require human accounts to be doing so. You could game a few stars with sockpuppet accounts, but it's infeasible to game 100+ stars.
> This package costed me 8.19 Euros for 100 stars which is €0.08/star.
Shoot for the stars, I guess.
Aka "the titles when people post these on reddit". Now you know why HN has the "no editorializing" rule. :)
reddit is a whole different beast. It does not have a sense of humor, rather it is a biased cesspool of partisanship.
"Please star my repo so I can get a job" is brutal
OK, so the "Storing data in the network ... " title made me remember something. If you transmit a message to Mars, say a rover command sequence, and the outgoing buffer is deleted on the sending side (the original code is preserved, but the transmission-encoded sequence doesn't stick around), then that data, for 20-90 minutes, exists nowhere _except_ space. It's just random-looking electrical fluctuations that are pr…
At least half of all HN content on any day is self-serving blogs and plausibly deniable adverts.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or that they're just a person who knows how to game stars. As Goodfart says, "When a measure becomes a target, it gets gamed beyond usefulness."
Although commits can be gamed on GitHub, stars are significantly harder to game as they require human accounts to be doing so. You could game a few stars with sockpuppet accounts, but it's infeasible to game 100+ stars.
It’s not only feasible, it’s trivial.
https://the-guild.dev/blog/judging-open-source-by-github-sta...
OK, so the "Storing data in the network ... " title made me remember something. If you transmit a message to Mars, say a rover command sequence, and the outgoing buffer is deleted on the sending side (the original code is preserved, but the transmission-encoded sequence doesn't stick around), then that data, for 20-90 minutes, exists nowhere _except_ space. It's just random-looking electrical fluctuations that are pr…
So if we can somehow preserve the signal and make it go round and round, can we get long term storage out of nothing?