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I really think this is best we got so far.

• onion2k 8y 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 8y 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 8y ago
      Also known as reading Arthur Whitney's code.[0] [0] http://kparc.com/b/ http://kparc.com/b/
      • ulucs 8y ago
        I hope hell is as engaging and rewarding as that.
        • hpkuarg 8y ago
          The only difference between hell and heaven is that in one, you end up understanding what you read. ;-)
  • d0mine 8y 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 8y 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.