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Some notable stories from Folklore.org: https://www.folklore.org/Joining_Apple_Computer.html https://www.folklore.org/Joining_Apple_Computer.html https://www.
by WillAdams 1y ago
Some notable stories from Folklore.org:
https://www.folklore.org/Joining_Apple_Computer.html https://www.folklore.org/Joining_Apple_Computer.html
https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html --- something to bring up whenever lines of code as a metric is put forward
https://www.folklore.org/Rosings_Rascals.html https://www.folklore.org/Rosings_Rascals.html --- story of how the Macintosh Finder came to be
https://www.folklore.org/I_Still_Remember_Regions.html https://www.folklore.org/I_Still_Remember_Regions.html --- surviving a car accident
- LorenDB 1y agoThe lines of code story is a timeless classic.
- 90s_dev 1y ago> He thought and wrote "-2000 lines". Management stopped asking Bill to fill out the form. This lesson stuck with me for years. Final results alone are measurable, not productivity.
- worik 1y agoImagine being the manager that had to assess Bill Atkinson's productivity! > Final results alone are measurable Not even those, for individuals Mostly we work in teams. I myself like to work in "plumbing" that is arbitrarily far from "final results"
- garciasn 1y agoScore code on line count and runtime golf. Shorter, faster, and fastest time to completion is best. Code that’s 4K and took slightly less time to write but runs slightly faster than code that’s 400 bytes that took another 30m to write still doesn’t get the best score.
- dan-robertson 1y agoI kind think metrics are not the answer and instead one needs taste. Obviously performance is multidimensional both in what one measures (latency vs throughput) and as a function of the input. The solution you imagine that is slightly faster in the test could avoid (or introduce) different worst-case or asymptotic behaviour, for example.
- garciasn 1y agoI argue we shouldn’t be doing this at all; but, if we have to do to whatever insanely arbitrary metric a project/product/eng leader wants, this is probably a better metric than code length.
- pmoriarty 1y ago> Shorter, faster, and fastest time to completion is best. What about correctness, robustness, readability, clarity, maintainability?
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- leoc 1y ago“Busy Being Born” https://www.folklore.org/Busy_Being_Born.html https://www.folklore.org/Busy_Being_Born.html , with its priceless early glimpses of the Lisa/Mac UI preserved in Polaroid photos, may be the best.