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Re:Signs that you're a good programmer by thomasjoulin on Thursday April 25, 2013 @12:42PM (#5608232)
"At least 10% or more of their commits reduce the line-count of the project without adding new functionality"

It would be great if there was a git command to check that. Now that would be HN worthy. I skimmed the rest of the article and it seems to be typical link bait list

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Re:Signs that you're a good programmer by scrabble on Thursday April 25, 2013 @01:34PM (#5608623)
This may not always be indicative of positive quality.

I could reduce the line count on many files and increase complexity and reduce maintainability.

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Re:Signs that you're a good programmer by qu4z-2 on Thursday April 25, 2013 @10:50PM (#5611230)
It's the problem with optimising on metrics.

It seems unlikely that you would encounter someone who naturally reduced line counts while making code worse, but once it's being checked whether you're reducing line counts...

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