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If they weren’t being measured on LOC before, it might be a decent metric, since they wouldn’t have been trying to “game” it. Now I know as well as anyone that
by laichzeit0 4y ago
If they weren’t being measured on LOC before, it might be a decent metric, since they wouldn’t have been trying to “game” it. Now I know as well as anyone that LOC is mostly bullshit, but I also know a lot of developers who slack off. For example, if John Carmack was at Twitter, I highly doubt he’d be anywhere near the firing line.
- PuppyTailWags 4y agotbh I wouldn't be surprised an engineer with the technical scope, prowess, and responsibilities of John Carmack is bottom 50% of actual LOC. His behaviors would actually be in boosting the LOC of other developers through mentorship, code review, technical mtgs, and pair programming sessions!
- Someone 4y agoAnd even if he was doing (mostly) programming, he would probably be assigned harder jobs than most, and may have spent the last months researching some gnarly bug, experimenting with all kinds of code variants, but committing not much yet.
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