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recursiveyesterday at 5:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

They fixed it too soon. You have to wait until the effect is visible on someone's dashboard somewhere.


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marctayesterday at 5:50 PM

Goodhart's Law strikes again... "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

bluGillyesterday at 5:23 PM

You have to make sure it doesn't arrive at you before it is on the dashboard. Otherwise you are why it is blowing up the time to fix a bug metric. Unless you can make the problem so obscure other smart people asked to help you can't figure it out thus making you look bad.