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50 people likely wouldn't be enough to TYPE the source code of the entirety of Microsoft products in five years. Assuming that you did no design, and simply had
by greggyb 10y ago
50 people likely wouldn't be enough to TYPE the source code of the entirety of Microsoft products in five years. Assuming that you did no design, and simply had them copying source code as fast as they could.
120WPM * 60minutes/hour * 16hours/day * 5workdays/week * 52weeks * 5years * 50people / 10words/line
= 748.8M lines of code
For comparison, Google is 2B lines of code. https://www.wired.com/2015/09/google-2-billion-lines-codeand-one-place/ https://www.wired.com/2015/09/google-2-billion-lines-codeand...
Good luck!