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Absolutely. Sometimes for the whole day I remove code because of dead path or rewrite part of the code because of wrong initial design. Am I adding negative p
by ww520 5y ago
Absolutely. Sometimes for the whole day I remove code because of dead path or rewrite part of the code because of wrong initial design. Am I adding negative productivity?
- 20after4 5y agoAt a previous job, the boss awarded praise, and "points" each week for the developer who removed the most code from production. Counted as lines of code deleted according to git. (Points were redeemable for schwag from the company shop. They were highly desirable and nearly cash equivalents). Deleting code is arguably the most valuable work you could be doing.
- frankthedog 5y agoThat can turn into code golf quickly which makes reading the code later take 2-10x longer. I like the spirit oh this but the incentives are off.