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Re:Incrementally migrating over one million lines of code fr... by bdcravens on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @02:09PM (#19098574)
I wonder if their code is over 1M, or if they're doing what you see in a lot of marketing, which is count all the lines from included packages.
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Re:Incrementally migrating over one million lines of code fr... by rhizome on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @03:08PM (#19099299)
Who markets on the basis of LOC?
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Re:Incrementally migrating over one million lines of code fr... by chillydawg on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @03:17PM (#19099386)
Dropbox, right now. These blogs are always with an eye to recruitment.
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Re:Incrementally migrating over one million lines of code fr... by chrisseaton on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @03:35PM (#19099600)
Why would a massive legacy codebase be a recruitment turn-on?
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Re:Incrementally migrating over one million lines of code fr... by pmoriarty on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @06:21PM (#19101202)
Because then you can put on your resume that you have experience working on a massive codebase.
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