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Re:1's and 0's by noonespecial on Monday June 14, 2010 @05:01PM (#1430958)
Its a perfect storm. Lots of lines of LOC indicating massive productivity, complete unintelligibility to other coders indicating your rock-star status, and a completely intractable architecture guaranteeing your job security.

WTF clueless or diabolically brilliant?

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Re:1's and 0's by webmat on Monday June 14, 2010 @05:33PM (#1431071)
"lines of LOC"? Is this a new recursive definition for LOL?
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Re:1's and 0's by noonespecial on Monday June 14, 2010 @07:42PM (#1431370)
Sadly, its a word for word take of a little pamphlet on productivity I got on the first day of a consulting gig in 2003. At first I thought it was hilarious, then I tried to explain it to them, then I took to using it ironically like a grown man in Vision skatewear, then in a sad bit of learned helplessness it stuck in my brain, emerging to embarrass me on this future date.

I am ashamed.

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Re:1's and 0's by tetha on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @04:40AM (#1432142)
It is even scarier. It occurs if the number of lines of code someone produced spans across several lines. And if you want nightmares, extrapolate LoC and LoLoC into LoLoLoC. shivers
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Re:1's and 0's by melvin on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @01:04AM (#1431850)
'lines of LOC' sounds to me like a phrase meaning 'lines and lines of frivolous code of which the only value is incrementing the LOC count'.
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Re:1's and 0's by mkramlich on Monday June 14, 2010 @10:19PM (#1431609)
Here's an example of 2 LOLOC:

LOC

LOC

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Re:1's and 0's by frobozz on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @06:09AM (#1432309)
That looks like an example of PNS Syndrome to me.
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