Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Workplace Surveillance

Re:Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Work... by ChrisMarshallNY on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:44AM (#25227463)

I always get a bit cranky about the LoC thing.

I’d rather have an employee that spent three days, optimizing a single 100 LoC method, than one that churned out 2,000 LoC that does the same thing, in two days, that will need to be maintained, forevermore.

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Re:Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Work... by Kerrick on Friday November 27, 2020 @02:12PM (#25231702)

Fewer LoC isn't always better for maintenance. I'd certainly rather have my team maintain 1KLoC of JavaScript than 50LoC of Brainfuck.

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Re:Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Work... by ChrisMarshallNY on Friday November 27, 2020 @02:35PM (#25231891)

Good point. I write Swift. It's very easy to write almost entirely inscrutable Swift.

I sometimes have to go back, and put code back in, to make it maintainable (often, by Yours Truly).

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