Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day

Re:Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day by whatshisface on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @10:41AM (#22309676)

This issue can easily be fixed by switching from delta LOC to the size of the git diff (number of lines changed). The big problem with this strategy is the huge difference between 10 lines of carefully engineered algorithm code and 10,000 lines of blah API calls and boilerplate. I can write API calls and boilerplate as fast as I can type.

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Re:Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day by chx on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @12:55PM (#22310965)

> I can write API calls and boilerplate as fast as I can type.

I can write boilerplate much much faster than I can type, either I or the community have scripted that shit :D

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Re:Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day by whatshisface on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @02:37PM (#22312009)

I'm sure any shop that counted diff lines would ban editor boilerplate macros due to them being cheating. ;)

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