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My most productive days are when I delete code. Do you think they calculated absolute values, or would I be at the bottom with -50,000 LOC?
by datalopers 4y ago
My most productive days are when I delete code. Do you think they calculated absolute values, or would I be at the bottom with -50,000 LOC?
- deegles 4y agoWrite code? Fired. Refactor code? Fired. Delete code? Believe it or not, fired!
- dymk 4y agoI'd be pushing for your bonus if you were on my team and had -50,000 LOC contributed
- alias_neo 4y agoIt's also the best part of software engineering. The only thing I love more than deleting other people's code is deleting my own code.
- mas-ev 4y agoDeleting 50k lines of code still counts as lines of code changed...
- tablespoon 4y ago> Deleting 50k lines of code still counts as lines of code changed... I'm the most productive 10x software engineer ever: I just fixed CRLF inconsistencies on several large code bases. Literally touched every line on hundreds of files. Next up: fixing the arbitrarily mixed tabs and spaces.
- ce4 4y agoAnd make sure the newline/whitespace convention changes often.
- rexreed 4y agodef job_saver(): while (true) { add_code; sleep; delete_code; sleep; }
- SAI_Peregrinus 4y agoI just deleted a bit over 76,000 files in one of our repos. GitHub shows it as "Infinity files changed", and refuses to display even a list of the files.
- TheAdamist 4y agoRandom number generator for who was fired would probably have worked better than this debacle
- rich_sasha 4y agoIg Noble prize of 2011 was awarded for showing a similar effect: promoting at random is better than promoting on merit. So it's probably true. https://improbable.com/2011/05/30/robust-goodness-from-random-promotions/ https://improbable.com/2011/05/30/robust-goodness-from-rando...
- indy 4y agoThe most productive days are before that when you're finding the unnecessary code. Deleting it is just the victory lap
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoI love deleting large swaths of code, and binning source files. I'm busy reducing the number of screens my app requires, and that is not easy.