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I'm looking for the kind of job where I can stare out the window all day long, but then write one single subroutine that just works the very first time, and tha

I'm looking for the kind of job where I can stare out the window all day long, but then write one single subroutine that just works the very first time, and that not only is compliant to spec, but exceeds expectation. Rock stars blow their royalties and ticket sales up their noses, sleep with groupies, trash hotel rooms and die young.

MichaelCrawford 12y ago
back in the day, some clueless manager posted to usenet that he was looking for a coder who could - I swear I'm not making this up! - "write 1000 lines of code per day". I'm sure you can visualize all the responses that were posted.
- entelechy0 12y ago
  There are some days (like today) where this is the norm at my company...
  - therealdrag0 12y ago
    I started on my current project 10 months ago, and using gitinspector [1], I can see I've averaged 10k lines a month, but after deletions and refactors, about 40% of that remains. This is working on a green field project and never exceeding 40 hours a week. It's also 'losing' coding time to research (I'm a junior dev) and managing / training other team members. So I could see a much higher number of lines than this being feasible. [1] https://code.google.com/p/gitinspector/ https://code.google.com/p/gitinspector/
- davidgerard 12y ago
  Now, if they could average minus 1000 lines per day ...
  - ConceptJunkie 12y ago
    Yes, for almost every existing project I've ever worked on, I had a net negative line of code count per day, and boy did that feel good.
- manifestsilence 12y ago
  Clearly they were looking for this guy: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Got_Time_0x3f_ http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Got_Time_0x3f_
wiredfool 12y ago
Rock stars are statistically more likely to end up dead in a hotel bathtub. Ninjas spend 99% of their time practicing, but when they do work, you never see them. And you know them by their trail of bodies. Neither of these sound like successful software developer case studies.

MichaelCrawford 12y ago

back in the day, some clueless manager posted to usenet that he was looking for a coder who could - I swear I'm not making this up! - "write 1000 lines of code per day". I'm sure you can visualize all the responses that were posted.

entelechy0 12y ago
There are some days (like today) where this is the norm at my company...
- therealdrag0 12y ago
  I started on my current project 10 months ago, and using gitinspector [1], I can see I've averaged 10k lines a month, but after deletions and refactors, about 40% of that remains. This is working on a green field project and never exceeding 40 hours a week. It's also 'losing' coding time to research (I'm a junior dev) and managing / training other team members. So I could see a much higher number of lines than this being feasible. [1] https://code.google.com/p/gitinspector/ https://code.google.com/p/gitinspector/
davidgerard 12y ago
Now, if they could average minus 1000 lines per day ...
- ConceptJunkie 12y ago
  Yes, for almost every existing project I've ever worked on, I had a net negative line of code count per day, and boy did that feel good.
manifestsilence 12y ago
Clearly they were looking for this guy: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Got_Time_0x3f_ http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Got_Time_0x3f_

wiredfool 12y ago

Rock stars are statistically more likely to end up dead in a hotel bathtub. Ninjas spend 99% of their time practicing, but when they do work, you never see them. And you know them by their trail of bodies. Neither of these sound like successful software developer case studies.