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kiba 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Programming Still Sucks

The industry optimize toward whatever metric is legible. A company that optimize toward an illegible metric will endure.

jordwest 3 months ago [–]

Unfortunately there are plenty of highly legible metrics that make the world a worse place ("engagement" might be among the worst)

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