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jcelerier on Oct 2, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Learning Common Lisp to beat Java and Rust on a ph...

> this implies that software quality and success have no correlation.

I mean, like in most other fields no ? Most successful movies, books, foods, artworks, furnitures, ... are fairly different from the best ones.

vegai_ on Oct 2, 2021 [–]

But the least successful art is in every measure bad. I mean for example the movies that score 1.0-2.0 in imdb. But yeah, perhaps the comic book movies are not unlike Wordpress.

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