Post APIOsIu6xYNcxNPj8K by molly0xfff@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #APIOsIN8w80bJ7zOkK by molly0xfff@mastodon.social
       2022-11-05T09:45:40Z
       
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       imagine deciding which engineers to keep around based on lines of code and choosing to keep the ones who wrote the MOST
       
 (DIR) Post #APIOsIu6xYNcxNPj8K by molly0xfff@mastodon.social
       2022-11-05T09:45:44Z
       
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       at my old job, engineers would sometimes have LOC in the negatives and that was a point of pride
       
 (DIR) Post #APJ8A2VC5aECwOPPwO by leo@twit.social
       2022-11-05T22:35:11Z
       
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       @molly0xfff Sometimes less is more.https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt
       
 (DIR) Post #APK5iOZqPplsXxEc5I by joematango@mastodon.sdf.org
       2022-11-06T09:42:45Z
       
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       @leo @molly0xfff Immediately thought of this anecdote, too!
       
 (DIR) Post #APNMDK7Sc4O0C4wCrA by press_rouch@mastodon.green
       2022-11-05T10:15:27Z
       
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       @molly0xfff “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
       
 (DIR) Post #APYYhefoDM04L1GIme by ajsadauskas@aus.social
       2022-11-06T05:26:53Z
       
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       @molly0xfff IBM were paying coders by the line in the mid '80s, right around the time they released OS/2. And just look how well they're doing today in the personal computer and PC operating system market...
       
 (DIR) Post #APYr9pQLdTLSxoc7zE by avandeursen@fediscience.org
       2022-11-07T21:58:41Z
       
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       @molly0xfff   ‘If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent."’ — Edsger Dijkstra