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Re:Companies consider abandoning open office layouts to prev... by crankylinuxuser on Monday May 04, 2020 @04:46PM (#23073048)
Wasnt there a story about a graybeard who, upon being turned into a gamafied LOC programmer, ended up changing 2 lines and removing 2000?

He put -1998 lines on his daily email?

And I think that hits to the core of Goodhart's law:

""When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.""

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Re:Companies consider abandoning open office layouts to prev... by folkhack on Monday May 04, 2020 @05:34PM (#23073581)
Lol - old graybeard ... it was Bill freakin' Atkinson. Author of HyperCard and one of my heroes!

This story came up often when I said I read the commits daily. I would just roll my eyes and say "I read code, I don't look at arbitrary LOC".

If the story is true it shows incompetence with the managers to pick such an arbitrary metric to measure with. Plus, when you start policing people like this you can damn-near guarantee motivation goes in the trashcan because now it's a "me vs. you" thing... and eww who wants to come to work with THAT?!

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Re:Companies consider abandoning open office layouts to prev... by Moto7451 on Monday May 04, 2020 @04:51PM (#23073101)
You might be thinking of https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
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Re:Companies consider abandoning open office layouts to prev... by crankylinuxuser on Monday May 04, 2020 @05:03PM (#23073218)
Indeed! That's it :)

Thank you for finding it.

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