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Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit... by sitkack on Thursday February 20, 2025 @06:20PM (#43121800)
Under that simplistic model there is no space for higher quality, higher reliability, etc. Then "efficiency" is one dimensional and you have basically no agency. The cost model should be agreed upon collectively.

-2000 lines

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Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit... by vonmoltke on Thursday February 20, 2025 @06:47PM (#43122101)
You're right, and there were definitely situations where we could have done things better, but didn't, because the impetus wasn't there. It was really frustrating, and I wish I'd been able to get out sooner.

> -2000 lines

Not sure what this is a reference to, but one of the fun things I tripped over while there was that code changes were valued on dollars per LOC. Changesets with net negative LOC were... problematic. I think I once had a change that was near -2000 LOC net.

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Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit... by kirubakaran on Thursday February 20, 2025 @07:28PM (#43122518)
https://folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html
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