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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by cptaj on Saturday October 29, 2022 @09:59PM (#33390194)
And if you indeed make "more lines!" the guiding metric for developer performance, you're setting yourself up for a world of pain because they will sure as hell find out and start gaming the metric. This will lead to a feedback loop of rising expenses and tech debt.
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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by idontwantthis on Saturday October 29, 2022 @11:50PM (#33390866)
As a Vim user, I’ll happily expand my for loops with just a couple of key presses
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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by akomtu on Sunday October 30, 2022 @02:30AM (#33391767)
Another technique is "versioning" when instead of fixing a function, you duplicate it and slowly migrate callers of this function to its new version.
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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by vimwannabe on Sunday October 30, 2022 @07:53AM (#33393623)
How do you do the increments smartly
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