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Aurornislast Thursday at 3:59 PM2 repliesview on HN

You the phrase about how when something becomes a metric it ceases to be a useful measure because everyone starts gaming it?

The same goes for hiring tricks. When some hiring signal becomes a trick that gets passed around by influencers, it ceases to become a useful hiring signal because everyone is gaming it.

If this guy started advertising his process, everyone would start doing his process and it would stop working.


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kjkjadksjlast Friday at 5:16 PM

You can proselytize all you want for thousands of years and you will never convert the whole world at once.

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asdf6969last Friday at 7:49 PM

Not true or else leetcode would be gone. They made a lot of money off the old paradigm and somebody will certainly take advantage of whatever comes next