4 ms·

Easy: LOC / hour. </sarcasm>

by srfilipek 7y ago

dominotw 7y ago
I really think this is best we got so far.
- onion2k 7y ago
  So the secret to being a 10X programmer is ":set tw=8" making your maximum line length 8 characters, forcing you be 10 times more productive than rival devs who're stuck at the old 80 character standard. Got it.
  - RugnirViking 7y ago
    I think reading code deliniated into lines 8 characters code, written by somebody else, with no whitespace and single letter variable names is the punishment reserved in hell for the very worst of developers.
    - hpkuarg 7y ago
      Also known as reading Arthur Whitney's code.[0] [0] http://kparc.com/b/ http://kparc.com/b/
      - ulucs 7y ago
        I hope hell is as engaging and rewarding as that.
        hpkuarg 7y ago
        The only difference between hell and heaven is that in one, you end up understanding what you read. ;-)
  - d0mine 7y ago
    Or you can move around code creating large diffs and when asked why: just say "I'm familiarizing myself with the code" -- real story: my boss says about that person that he is the most productive programmer. It seems gaming trivial metrics works in this case.
  - dominotw 7y ago
    1. no one will be allowed to do that if you work in a team environment. 2. No one has been able to come up with a better alternative. I wasn't implying its a prefect metric or even a reasonable one. If you really need a quantifiable metric then thats all we got.
WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago
Hard Mode: Removed LOC / hour.
- d0mine 7y ago
  Hardest mode: non-written code
  - 0xfeba 7y ago
    Social-engineering your PM to remove requirements, yep.
    - WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago
      My PM loves removing stuff from tickets. Most of the time, what people want isn't even what they want.
organsnyder 7y ago
On an inverse scale, sure. Only the best coders have net-negative LOC/hour metrics.
- szatkus 7y ago
  This would end up with a lot of code golf.
  - organsnyder 7y ago
    Reaching the objective as efficiently as possible... yeah, sounds about right.
  - thanatropism 7y ago
    Code golf probably correlates with IQ.

Easy: LOC / hour. </sarcasm>

dominotw 7y ago

I really think this is best we got so far.

onion2k 7y ago
So the secret to being a 10X programmer is ":set tw=8" making your maximum line length 8 characters, forcing you be 10 times more productive than rival devs who're stuck at the old 80 character standard. Got it.
- RugnirViking 7y ago
  I think reading code deliniated into lines 8 characters code, written by somebody else, with no whitespace and single letter variable names is the punishment reserved in hell for the very worst of developers.
  - hpkuarg 7y ago
    Also known as reading Arthur Whitney's code.[0] [0] http://kparc.com/b/ http://kparc.com/b/
    - ulucs 7y ago
      I hope hell is as engaging and rewarding as that.
      - hpkuarg 7y ago
        The only difference between hell and heaven is that in one, you end up understanding what you read. ;-)
- d0mine 7y ago
  Or you can move around code creating large diffs and when asked why: just say "I'm familiarizing myself with the code" -- real story: my boss says about that person that he is the most productive programmer. It seems gaming trivial metrics works in this case.
- dominotw 7y ago
  1. no one will be allowed to do that if you work in a team environment. 2. No one has been able to come up with a better alternative. I wasn't implying its a prefect metric or even a reasonable one. If you really need a quantifiable metric then thats all we got.

WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago

Hard Mode: Removed LOC / hour.

d0mine 7y ago
Hardest mode: non-written code
- 0xfeba 7y ago
  Social-engineering your PM to remove requirements, yep.
  - WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago
    My PM loves removing stuff from tickets. Most of the time, what people want isn't even what they want.

organsnyder 7y ago

On an inverse scale, sure. Only the best coders have net-negative LOC/hour metrics.

szatkus 7y ago
This would end up with a lot of code golf.
- organsnyder 7y ago
  Reaching the objective as efficiently as possible... yeah, sounds about right.
- thanatropism 7y ago
  Code golf probably correlates with IQ.