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Re:You only get 1,000 lines of code a week by protonfish on Monday November 17, 2014 @10:19AM (#8618531)
1,000 lines are probably not as much as you think. For web developers, if you included HTML, CSS, JavaScript, CGI language and SQL you can easily get over 1,000 characters in a week. (That's only about 25 lines an hour for 8 hours/day 5 days/week.)
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Re:You only get 1,000 lines of code a week by pdpi on Monday November 17, 2014 @10:31AM (#8618591)
Every time I get anywhere near that sort of number, I look at it, and factor out all the boilerplate I'm almost certainly writing.
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Re:You only get 1,000 lines of code a week by eterm on Monday November 17, 2014 @10:23AM (#8618557)
I'd struggle to think in a job which required 25 lines an hour ever, let alone constantly for 8 hours/day!

I don't think I've ever written more than a few hundred LOC in a week.

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Re:You only get 1,000 lines of code a week by k-mcgrady on Monday November 17, 2014 @10:36AM (#8618612)
What kind of projects do you work on? I'm sure the experience differs a lot between people working on important, complex legacy projects, and people developing consumer mobile apps for photo sharing etc.
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Re:You only get 1,000 lines of code a week by Kiro on Monday November 17, 2014 @11:19AM (#8618830)
For me working on complex legacy projects means even less LoC since you're so afraid of breaking stuff.
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Re:You only get 1,000 lines of code a week by k-mcgrady on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @07:12AM (#8623548)
Exactly, that was my point. If you're starting a simple consumer product you'll write lots of code quickly. When working on something complex you need to consider how your changes will effect every aspect of the product.
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Re:You only get 1,000 lines of code a week by matwood on Monday November 17, 2014 @03:49PM (#8620446)
Exactly. When I was working on a payroll system it could take a day to change a modify a few lines and test all the various scenarios before releasing. The cost of making a mistake was large.
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