Molly Whiteimagine deciding which engineers to keep around based on lines of code and choosing to keep the ones who wrote the MOST
at my old job, engineers would sometimes have LOC in the negatives and that was a point of pride
TiredOldNerd@molly0xfff My father used to regularly quote Johann Wolfgang von Goethe with: "I am writing you a long letter, because I have no time to write you a short one."
I often think about that when looking at our codebase.
I often think about that when looking at our codebase.
Robin Stephenson@TiredOldNerd @molly0xfff thought that was Pascal:
“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
(Letter 16, 1657)―Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters
“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
(Letter 16, 1657)―Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters
@aglet @molly0xfff I guess Goethe knew the work of Pascal. Maybe this was a deliberate quote.