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criley2today at 10:15 AM1 replyview on HN

Feels like a pretty wildly misleading graph. What do they say about lies, damned lies and statistics?

This graph is literally designed to abuse correlation =/= causation by attaching the arbitrary label "microsoft acquires github" so that the reader will apply causation to the uptime.

Now let's overlay ontop of the uptime graph a few lines of: # of monthly active users, # of monthly commits, size of PRs, action minutes per PR (whatever demonstrates scaling)

Something tells me that the uptime issues follow scale more than they do ownership... but that's not the narrative that this chart was designed for...


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aprentictoday at 11:11 AM

The nice thing about statistics and math is that you don't need to stop at a feeling. If doubt their math, do it yourself.

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