ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 2 days agoQuick, someone release Chatbot 2000!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1762arrow-down113
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minus-squarepalordrolap@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up69·2 days agoIt is worth noting that the same metric is the exact reason that web browser version numbers are so ridiculous. What’s that saying? Something about the moment a metric is used to measure performance, it ceases to be a good metric. That’s what’s happening here. In one of the stupidest ways possible.
minus-squareClay_pidgin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·2 days agoHere’s an episode of the excellent “99 percent Invisible” design podcast that interviews a philosopher who ho has written about this topic! https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/673-the-score/
minus-squareboonhet@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 days agoOh yeah, Firefox used to take years to change major version number, then they changed to… what was it now, a 6 week schedule? To keep up with Chrome’s versions.
minus-squareLaurel Raven@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 days agoI hate their versioning schedule so damned much
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 days agoIt’s gone to a 4 week cadence, now down to a 2-week cadence.
It is worth noting that the same metric is the exact reason that web browser version numbers are so ridiculous.
What’s that saying? Something about the moment a metric is used to measure performance, it ceases to be a good metric.
That’s what’s happening here. In one of the stupidest ways possible.
Here’s an episode of the excellent “99 percent Invisible” design podcast that interviews a philosopher who ho has written about this topic! https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/673-the-score/
Oh yeah, Firefox used to take years to change major version number, then they changed to… what was it now, a 6 week schedule? To keep up with Chrome’s versions.
I hate their versioning schedule so damned much
It’s gone to a 4 week cadence, now down to a 2-week cadence.