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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by alt219 on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @09:16PM (#23098562)
Your story brought to mind this bit of Apple folklore[0], wherein Bill Atkinson, the author of QuickDraw, reported his weekly LOC as -2,000 after implementing optimizations.

[0] https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by realusername on Thursday May 07, 2020 @12:02AM (#23099592)
That's pretty common, my contribution to my current work is surely in the negative as well due to the massive amount of spaghetti code I had to refactor.
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