-2000 Lines of Code

Re:-2000 Lines of Code by ja27 on Monday December 14, 2015 @09:42PM (#10735574)

I worked somewhere where the support manager somehow managed to get approval to bill his costs against each product group based on the lines of code in their product. We spent part of a week refactoring and reformatting to cut it by 70% before we gave him our numbers.

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Re:-2000 Lines of Code by egroat on Monday December 14, 2015 @11:09PM (#10735880)

That is genious.

Absolute genious. There are likely to be less problems on a smaller codebase and when there are its much easier to recommend a rewrite of 1k than 10k

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Re:-2000 Lines of Code by executesorder66 on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @12:40AM (#10736142)

That's brilliant.

I would love to know how he reacted and what happened next.

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Re:-2000 Lines of Code by wmt on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @01:58AM (#10736368)

I really hope he was happy that his nefarious plan worked where he managed to make his job easier while improving the product.

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