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Yeah he averaged about 500 LOC a day for 8 years. Which seems insane. That is a wildly productive programmer.
by epberry 10y ago
Yeah he averaged about 500 LOC a day for 8 years. Which seems insane. That is a wildly productive programmer.
- cel1ne 10y agoHow is LOC a measure of productivity?
- ux-app 10y agoit's not the measure, but surely it's a measure?
- blueprint 10y agoIt's a measure of something. The question is whether it's a measure of productivity, which begs the question, what is the definition of productivity?
- taneq 10y agoIt's a terrible measure, but all the rest are worse in some way.
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- nilkn 10y agoNot just a productive programmer, but one who's working on the sorts of problems that involve just writing code nonstop. I've worked on projects where just deciding what lines to write would take half a day, so that sort of raw code output would've been outright impossible.
- user837387 10y agoNow add the number of hours or days for testing and debugging those 500 lines of code and you get the true amount of time that it took to write 500 LOC. Otherwise I can also write a huge amount of lines of code in a day but pretty much none of it will work correctly, or even run, on the first try .
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