This has been discussed on Hacker News before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3989136 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3989136). The cited article was

This has been discussed on Hacker News before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3989136 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3989136). The cited article was published in 2012 at a different domain that is no longer alive. Thanks to the Wayback Machine, we have copies. Here's one: https://web.archive.org/web/20120623032243/http://edweissman.com/it-takes-6-days-to-change-1-line-of-code https://web.archive.org/web/20120623032243/http://edweissman...