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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by awalton on Friday August 02, 2019 @09:00PM (#20597937)
> Complex systems become more complex over time and resist becoming simpler.

Deserves repeating.

At my job, it's repeatedly discussed as a feature to be an engineer who removes the most code. Most engineers are net positive, the few are break even... but the true greats are the ones who're able to go negative.

Pink diffs are the best diffs.

Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by iforgotpassword on Saturday August 03, 2019 @06:09AM (#20599591)
This is true. We hacked our internal web front end to show a big thumbs up next to commits that are net negative as a little motivator. It was mostly meant as a joke but sometimes it is satisfying to see that after a long refactoring session.