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I have an excellent command of JavaScript and AngularJS, which allows me to focus on the problems themselves and not get fussed up with language subtleties...us

by Bahamut 12y ago

I have an excellent command of JavaScript and AngularJS, which allows me to focus on the problems themselves and not get fussed up with language subtleties...usually. I also have been working 70+ hour weeks for the past month, often 75 hours. There have been multiple times I had to shut my brain for the night because my focusing ability starts to deteriorate if I code too long. I also try to get a good night of sleep most nights - 7-8 hours prove optimal for me, although I often end up with 6. A good portion of those loc have been complete rewrites based on existing code to clean it up and meet unforeseen changes in requirements that nobody planned for. Honestly, the amount of code I pumped out is a miracle, I'm hoping I don't get stuck in such a situation again at my current job.

RogerL 12y ago
That is under 7.2 seconds per line, nonstop. [1] I'm a fast typist, and I can't type that fast. [1] 75 hrs/week * 4 weeks * 3600 sec/hr / 'over' 150,000 lines = 'under' 7.2 sec/line
- dahart 12y ago
  And don't forget- its not nonstop; he's managing others during the day and setting his fingers on fire before & after work, its probably under 4 seconds per line! Which, as long as you never under any circumstances have to actually read, build, run, or debug any of the code, is totally do-able. Even if this physically impossible feat of coding were true, that's 150,000 lines of code to debug, written while tired. Enough to set a full engineering team back for a year.
jessedhillon 12y ago
Others are downvoting you, possibly bc they think you're exaggerating, but I just find your claims to be curious and would be really interested in meeting you. That is, if you ever have time to meet other people. Let me know, contact info is in my profile.
jbergens 12y ago
I work with Angular and Javascript as well. I don't think you should count the html code, if that is what you did. Count the javascript-code only and see how many lines you write in a week. And if the number still is as high as you've said I must wonder what kind of system you are building? Normally you rewrite everything that is repetetive into services/controllers/functions to keep the line count down. There was a talk recently from Google about some large application they had written in Angular, the problems they ran into and what they learned from that. They provided some line counts and it wasn't millions of lines even for them and they still had a team of something like 10-20 developers.

by Bahamut 12y ago

RogerL 12y ago

That is under 7.2 seconds per line, nonstop. [1] I'm a fast typist, and I can't type that fast. [1] 75 hrs/week * 4 weeks * 3600 sec/hr / 'over' 150,000 lines = 'under' 7.2 sec/line

dahart 12y ago
And don't forget- its not nonstop; he's managing others during the day and setting his fingers on fire before & after work, its probably under 4 seconds per line! Which, as long as you never under any circumstances have to actually read, build, run, or debug any of the code, is totally do-able. Even if this physically impossible feat of coding were true, that's 150,000 lines of code to debug, written while tired. Enough to set a full engineering team back for a year.

jessedhillon 12y ago

Others are downvoting you, possibly bc they think you're exaggerating, but I just find your claims to be curious and would be really interested in meeting you. That is, if you ever have time to meet other people. Let me know, contact info is in my profile.

jbergens 12y ago

I work with Angular and Javascript as well. I don't think you should count the html code, if that is what you did. Count the javascript-code only and see how many lines you write in a week. And if the number still is as high as you've said I must wonder what kind of system you are building? Normally you rewrite everything that is repetetive into services/controllers/functions to keep the line count down. There was a talk recently from Google about some large application they had written in Angular, the problems they ran into and what they learned from that. They provided some line counts and it wasn't millions of lines even for them and they still had a team of something like 10-20 developers.