I would do so poorly there, in many ways …. I love those days when my lines of code is negative
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FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 9 months ago
Fake for any of those wondering.
But keeping employees based on how many lines of code they have written, which he did, is essentially the same logic.
AA5B@lemmy.world 9 months ago
TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
There are 2 things in coding that are incredibly satisfying for me:
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Compiling after implementing a fuckton of features
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Deleting a massive amount of code after refactoring for a while
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whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
My ass would just write functions that take a huge amount of parameters and assign one in each line
HawlSera@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Oh the amount of redundant code I would write
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Ernest Hemingway was paid by the word, which shows in his work. I imagine this pay structure would have a similar effect on how people code.
Lamps@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought that saying was for Dickens? Wasn’t Hemingway famously terse?
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
I thought it was about Steven King, but it might just be all the cocaine he did.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m not a coder, but wanting code that isn’t streamlined seems like a bad plan to me.