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Re:What Is Code? by lucozade on Friday June 12, 2015 @07:12AM (#9705131)
Many years ago I managed to convince my management that, if they had to use deltaLOC as a performance metric, that they at least use abs(deltaLoC).

I then spent the next year cutting huge chunks of crap out of a C++ application that I had inherited.

Was a most satisfying experience.

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Re:What Is Code? by meric on Friday June 12, 2015 @07:53AM (#9705290)
Hmm, shouldn't it be Sum(abs(deltaLoC per change))? Otherwise if you added 50 lines a day and removed 50, your abs(deltaLoC) will be 0.
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Re:What Is Code? by zeckalpha on Friday June 12, 2015 @08:54AM (#9705528)
Let's add some whitespace to the README. Let's remove some whitespace from the README. Let's add some whitespace to the README.
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