I wish the output from git diff used red for new lines and green for removed lines...
-2000 Lines of Code (2004)
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Re: -2000 Lines of Code (2004)
#12I deleted 205 today. Felt good.
I deleted about that many today as well. Cleaner neater more readable code is better.
Re: -2000 Lines of Code (2004)
#134 months into a new job, and I realized I had contributed about -4000 lines of code. I thought, how weird it would be to explain (especially to someone less technical), that I'd pretty much just been deleting code since I started. I'd also added a number of important features along the way. Since then, I've taken some pride in trying to be a "net negative" (by line count), contributor to any code base I work on. Not…
My favorite OS updates are the one with negative net install.
Keep trimming.
Re: -2000 Lines of Code (2004)
#14I had a job interview once where the HR rep asked me how many lines of code I wrote a week. I responded, "On a really good week -1000, I don't remember the exact figure." She was extremely confused by this answer and wanted me to give her a number. So she said, "I'll just put down 10,000." This is also the interview where they refused to continue unless I told them how much money I made (which I don't do anymore). Th…
> The justification they told me was that they weren't going to give me a 20K raise if I wasn't making that much right now Even after 20+ years in the labor force, I've never understood that justification. "I'm a nosy bastard" at least has a ring of truth to it.
"I want to pay you as little as possible and still get you to come to work here." That's the truth.
Re: -2000 Lines of Code (2004)
#154 months into a new job, and I realized I had contributed about -4000 lines of code. I thought, how weird it would be to explain (especially to someone less technical), that I'd pretty much just been deleting code since I started. I'd also added a number of important features along the way. Since then, I've taken some pride in trying to be a "net negative" (by line count), contributor to any code base I work on. Not…
There was someone at Google whose total code delta over his tenure was something like -2M. Yep, two million lines of code deleted. May we all be that productive.
Re: -2000 Lines of Code (2004)
#164 months into a new job, and I realized I had contributed about -4000 lines of code. I thought, how weird it would be to explain (especially to someone less technical), that I'd pretty much just been deleting code since I started. I'd also added a number of important features along the way. Since then, I've taken some pride in trying to be a "net negative" (by line count), contributor to any code base I work on. Not…
There was someone at Google whose total code delta over his tenure was something like -2M. Yep, two million lines of code deleted. May we all be that productive.
A programming god I'd say
Re: -2000 Lines of Code (2004)
#17"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
— Ken Thompson
Re: -2000 Lines of Code (2004)
#18I had a job interview once where the HR rep asked me how many lines of code I wrote a week. I responded, "On a really good week -1000, I don't remember the exact figure." She was extremely confused by this answer and wanted me to give her a number. So she said, "I'll just put down 10,000." This is also the interview where they refused to continue unless I told them how much money I made (which I don't do anymore). Th…
> The justification they told me was that they weren't going to give me a 20K raise if I wasn't making that much right now Even after 20+ years in the labor force, I've never understood that justification. "I'm a nosy bastard" at least has a ring of truth to it.
Don't be so literal about it. I used to get defensive about that question too, but the truth is they aren't asking you how much you are making, they are asking you to start the salary negotiation so they can get a feel for what it's going to take to hire you and describe you adequately to a hiring manager. It's just an opportunity for you both to ballpark the situation and eject early if there's going to be a wide disagreement about comp. It can be equally advantageous to both parties if you use it properly.
Re: -2000 Lines of Code (2004)
#19I deleted a couple thousand lines this week. It felt awesome. But you'd have to admit that rewarding based upon deleted lines of code could be even more dangerous than rewarding added lines of code.
Re: -2000 Lines of Code (2004)
#204 months into a new job, and I realized I had contributed about -4000 lines of code. I thought, how weird it would be to explain (especially to someone less technical), that I'd pretty much just been deleting code since I started. I'd also added a number of important features along the way. Since then, I've taken some pride in trying to be a "net negative" (by line count), contributor to any code base I work on. Not…
There was someone at Google whose total code delta over his tenure was something like -2M. Yep, two million lines of code deleted. May we all be that productive.
"Oh, him? That's Chuck. He just runs our commits through a minifier and takes credit for the lost lines. Means well, but he's kind of a jerk."