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An old boss of mine used to acknowledge people that had contributed excessively high LoCs at the weekly standup. Typically it used to be an indicator that someb
by AmericanChopper 5y ago
An old boss of mine used to acknowledge people that had contributed excessively high LoCs at the weekly standup. Typically it used to be an indicator that somebody had completed a large portion of work. Then a new guy started topping the LoC charts every week, and it was discovered that he was reformatting every file he touched to use his preferred indentation scheme.
It was a pretty lighthearted thing to begin with, but they stopped mentioning it entirely after that.
- combatentropy 5y agoIn 1982 Apple was having programmers report lines of code. Bill Atkinson refactored Quickdraw and put down a negative number, -2000 lines of code. Then they stopped asking him to fill out the form. https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...