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Re:Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? by lallysingh on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @03:28PM (#26171269)
I don't know about this. I think great engineers delete more code than they write. Perhaps something similar is relevant here.
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Re:Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? by sangnoir on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @09:47PM (#26174865)
> I think great engineers delete more code than they write.

...but someone has to write the code first, before some of it can be deleted by a great engineer ;)

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Re:Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? by lallysingh on Friday February 19, 2021 @08:12AM (#26192746)
If it wasn't there before, the great engineer could do something more useful than deleting code!
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