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Re:Ask HN: How much code do you write a day? by WrtCdEvrydy on Monday May 08, 2017 @10:09PM (#14297250)
I used to track "time in production" along with "lines written". It was really interesting to weigh "time in production" for lines of code to see how rushing to get more lines in ended in us rewriting more and more of a developer's code.
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Re:Ask HN: How much code do you write a day? by flukus on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @03:43AM (#14298371)
How much of the long serving lines are bit's that no one wants to touch anymore and are constantly worked around? Sometimes those lines will have enough technical debt attached that the business will not even consider updating/extending those parts of an application.
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Re:Ask HN: How much code do you write a day? by WrtCdEvrydy on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @11:03PM (#14305630)
Those are what we call 'core components' and they are never 'rewritten'. Because it's cheaper to throw more cloud RAM at it than to rewrite it.
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