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From the article: >> ...a program with more lines of code is better... Immediately reminded me of Bill Gates' comment on how measuring progress on a designing
by toss1 4y ago
From the article:
>> ...a program with more lines of code is better...
Immediately reminded me of Bill Gates' comment on how measuring progress on a designing and building a software project by using a Total_Lines_Of_Code metric is about as dumb as measuring progress on designing and building an airplane using a Total_Weight metric.
What you want in both is the least amount of code/material that will actually do the job, and being smarter than a simple "more is better"approach. Yet so many supposedly intelligent managers use such approaches...
- lazide 4y agoWell, one is easy, the other is hard hah! The big issue near as I can tell, is that defining what the job actually is, and what accomplishing it actually looks like is the hardest part most of the time. Many of the most innovative solutions also come from changing pre-built assumptions about what they can look like.
- wildmanx 4y ago> Yet so many supposedly intelligent managers use such approaches... Yet so many supposedly intelligent engineers work for such managers...
- toss1 4y agoYup!