ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 22 days agoQuick, someone release Chatbot 2000!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square61linkfedilinkarrow-up137arrow-down12
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minus-squarepalordrolap@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·22 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-up2·22 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-up1·22 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-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·22 days agoIt’s gone to a 4 week cadence, now down to a 2-week cadence.
minus-squareLaurel Raven@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 days agoI hate their versioning schedule so damned much
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.
It’s gone to a 4 week cadence, now down to a 2-week cadence.
I hate their versioning schedule so damned much