Comment on Linus Torvalds on a ridiculous job performance metric at tech companies and the prominent figure responsible for it

• teft@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m going to set my terminal width to 1 character. That way my “lines” of code count goes way up.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s the kind of thinking that a Sociopathic Oligarch could get behind, which is entirely the problem. Gaming and/or hacking the system is preferable to doing things properly. They want to be “disruptive,” even when it’s ill-advised.

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  • SolSerkonos@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Imagine trying to read that tho. Suddenly English is formatted vertically.

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    • Goretantath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Isn’t some of Japanese writing vertical? Might help me learn.

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      • SolSerkonos@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yeah, Japanese is written right to left, top to bottom. Traditionally, at least.

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Imagine trying to read that

      Kernel code is very often a series of short words, and very often formatted to take a lot of vertical space (i.e lines of code). It can be hard to read, especially when it’s a short code that corresponds to a longer function or location; but with practice we can cope.

      tho

      See? You’re expecting people to do it already. And kernel code confirms to the grammar a lot more than American 'english.

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      • SolSerkonos@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I wasn’t trying to suggest that it would be impossible- it’s obviously not. Just that it would be a difficult adjustment.

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  An Ask Lemmy topic recently was “what are some video games that don’t exist.” I gave three answers, but held one back because it does technically exist.

  SQIJ! for the ZX Spectrum was designed to be terrible by a programmer that, as I understand it, was contractually obligated to program a game, but had grown to hate the company. He wrote a game that turned the caps lock on so none of the movement keys worked, and if you edit the code with a memory poke to turn caps lock off, you’ll find there’s no game. It was written in BASIC, and the first line is the most passive aggressive thing I’ve ever read:

  1 goto 2

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• foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Here’s a very simple example.

  What’s 3^3?

  Or,

  Well it’s 3x3x3

  Which is 3+3+3, 3 times.

  Which is 3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3, which is 27.

  Which solution do we prefer?

  3^3 = 27?

  Or

  3+3+3

  +3+3+3

  +3+3+3

  =27?

  Which one uses more lines?

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  • ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    var three1 = 3

    var three2 = three1

    …

    Repeat until 27.

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  • ChaosMonkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I prefer 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1.

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    • cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Code formatter will see this and be like:

      const a = 1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1
        +1;
      

      I smell a promotion in your near future!

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    • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s only one line.

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      • ChaosMonkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You’re right, 1*1 line.

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  • wabafee@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Today you just ask AI to write you an essay 100 pages long to get that answer.

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