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ben

@rysiek Honestly, the most insane thing to come out recently is "stack ranking by lines of code".

Like, what?

Is this Microsoft in 1997?

4 Nov 2022 at 20:14 | Wall-to-wall | Open on chaos.social
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Chumchum Tumtum

@sqrt2 @rysiek when I heard that he had asked people to print out code, I knew shit was going to get _really_ bad, _really_ quickly

4 Nov 2022 at 20:18 | Open on social.linux.pizza
rootfs :oh_no:

@sqrt2 @rysiek I can't stop looking at this trainwreck. It's bad, but also really funny!

(not so much for the staff being fired, funny as in Musk thought buying Twitter was sensible and his decisions throughout).

4 Nov 2022 at 20:31 | Open on mastodon.org.uk
Lauri

@sqrt2 @rysiek

BillG is quoted saying ”measuring programmer progress by LoC is like measuring aircraft progress by weight,” and IIRC this was in the mid-nineties. So it’s worse than MS a quarter of a decade ago.

4 Nov 2022 at 20:51 | Open on piipitin.fi
ben

@rytmis @rysiek Not convinced that's a real quote, though (on the basis that if it were, it'd surely be on the Wikiquote page, but apparently there's no reliable source for that).

4 Nov 2022 at 21:10 | Open on chaos.social
Lauri

@sqrt2 @rysiek

Welp, at the very least it’s a misattribution that’s two decades old—I remember it floating around the net in the early ’00.

4 Nov 2022 at 21:13 | Open on piipitin.fi
Ben S.

@sqrt2 @rysiek even Steve Ballmer was laughing at IBM for caring about SLOCs around 1996.

4 Nov 2022 at 23:49 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org
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