. (Brexit, perhaps, but
Haskell??)
But many thanks to Gershom and Taylor for dealing with it so professionally.
Simon
From: Haskell-community On Behalf Of
Michael Snoyman
Sent: 18 November 2018 19:32
To: Taylor Fausak
Cc: haskell-community@haskell.org
Subject: Re: [Haskell-community] 2018 state
OK. Thanks for sharing some statistics. I'm now convinced as to the
characterization of the attack. I'm still glad for how the public post
diplomatically handled this.
> I will also say, though there's speculation about "false flags" and
Oof. That thought never crossed my mind. I can only
Hello Richard,
On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 11:20:52PM -0500, Richard Eisenberg wrote:
> I have not analyzed the data myself, but I wonder how we jumped to the
> conclusion that the troll was trying to promote Stack. Is there
> statistical data that supports that conclusion? For example, just reading
> For example, just reading this thread, it sounds like the bogus responses
also really don't like the new release schedule. Maybe the troll wants the
old release schedule back and was just lazy about programming the tool to
vary the stack/cabal question answers adequately.
There is another
I have not analyzed the data myself, but I wonder how we jumped to the
conclusion that the troll was trying to promote Stack. Is there statistical
data that supports that conclusion? For example, just reading this thread, it
sounds like the bogus responses also really don't like the new release
The language extensions section doesn’t appear to be sorted properly.
Outside of that, I think that these results are looking much better and any
effort to find any additional outliers is probably not worth it for the
moment. Thanks for your work on this, and I appreciate you being responsive
and
Just wanted to add in: good catch Gershom on identifying the problem, and thank
you Taylor for working to remove them from the report.
> On 18 Nov 2018, at 21:17, Taylor Fausak wrote:
>
> Great catch, Gershom! There are indeed about 300 responses that tick all the
> boxes except for disliking
Great catch, Gershom! There are indeed about 300 responses that tick all
the boxes except for disliking the new GHC release schedule. The main
thing the attacker seemed to be interested in was over-representing
Stack and Stackage. Also, bizarrely, Java.
That brings the number of bogus responses up
t; —Gershom
>
>
>
> On November 18, 2018 at 1:10:31 AM, Gershom B (gersh...@gmail.com) wrote:
>
>
>
> This is interesting, but I’m thoroughly confused. Over 2500 people said
> they took last year’s survey, but it only had roughly 1,300 respondants?
>
>
> On S
t doesn’t bode well for
> future surveys as they may get at least slightly less dumb in the future if
> they decide to keep it up :-/
>
> —Gershom
>
>
>
> On November 18, 2018 at 1:10:31 AM, Gershom B (gersh...@gmail.com) wrote:
>
>
>
> This is interesting, but I’m
s case we can weed out the bad responses (although, sadly,
>>>> losing at least a few real ones as well).>>>>
>>>> However, assuming this party isn’t entirely stupid, it doesn’t
>>>> bode well for future surveys as they may get at least slightly less
for future surveys as they may get at least slightly less dumb
>>> in the future if they decide to keep it up :-/>>>
>>> —Gershom
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On November 18, 2018 at 1:10:31 AM, Gershom B (gersh...@gmail.com)
>>>
;> On November 18, 2018 at 1:10:31 AM, Gershom B (gersh...@gmail.com) wrote:
>>
>> This is interesting, but I’m thoroughly confused. Over 2500 people said
>> they took last year’s survey, but it only had roughly 1,300 respondants?
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 17, 20
Taylor Fausak wrote:
> Hello! It took a little longer than I expected, but I am nearly ready to
> announce the 2018 state of Haskell survey results. Some community members
> have expressed interest in seeing the announcement post before it's
> published. If you are one of those peo
Hello! It took a little longer than I expected, but I am nearly ready to
announce the 2018 state of Haskell survey results. Some community members have
expressed interest in seeing the announcement post before it's published. If
you are one of those people, you can see the results here:
https
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