It Is, in Fact, Rocket Science

Re:It Is, in Fact, Rocket Science by jes5199 on Saturday May 16, 2015 @02:04PM (#9557016)

I try to be LOC neutral. A good day on a healthy team lets me delete at least as much code as I write.

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Re:It Is, in Fact, Rocket Science by SomeCallMeTim on Saturday May 16, 2015 @05:51PM (#9557760)

I agree that LOC isn't an ideal metric. But there isn't really an ideal simplistic metric.

Out of curiosity, I thought I'd look at a recent productive day. In actual numbers, my 42 check-ins totaled 409 new lines of code compared with 213 lines deleted, so close to 50% (not counting check-ins with simple line changes).

At the end I had several new features implemented and a lot of code refactored to be cleaner.

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Re:It Is, in Fact, Rocket Science by forrestthewoods on Saturday May 16, 2015 @05:37PM (#9557718)

The best days are when you delete more code than you write. If the only thing I did was delete code I'd be soooooo happy!

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