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Mark Herschberg, author of The Career Toolkit
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus
Originally posted by Ilja Preuss:
Today, I must have written around -500 lines... (yes, that's a minus-sign)
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The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Originally posted by Ben Wood:
I didn't realise that some organisations measured performance by means of line counting, that's bizarre. Does whitespace count?
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Only if you're programming in a certain language
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Originally posted by Rita Moore:
It's like in bioresearch, you cannot measure the amount of work done by counting dead rats per day.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Originally posted by Ben Wood:
that's brilliant! Some people simply have too much spare time on their hands
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Originally posted by Warren Dew:
Tim Holloway:
As a metric, Lines of Code/day is one of the worst. Every study I've ever seen has stated that it can vary wildly.
I agree it's a bad standard for individual performance. On the other hand, I'm not fond of the "how many hours does he stay at work" standard, either - it encourages people to go to work even when they are too sick or too tired to do anything productive.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Originally posted by Kishore Dandu:
If u are a architect, you will not produce any code.
You will make others produce based on your silly ideas.
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Originally posted by Daniel Mayer:
that's actually an Anti-Pattern: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ArchitectsDontCode
Kishore
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Mark Herschberg, author of The Career Toolkit
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Originally posted by Mark Herschberg:
Given 10000 developers, it'll bet most those in the top decile are more productive than most those is the lowst decile.
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of the idea. John Ciardi
Originally posted by Stan James:
I often tell my team that deleting code is my favorite part of programming. It usually means I've found a better algorithm or a chance for reuse. It's often possible because too many people never read what they write and even the most casual reader will find opportunities to delete cruft.
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus
Originally posted by Warren Dew:
However, you don't know how long that code took to write.
Studies that have looked at both quantity measures and quality measures find that they are positively correlated. In other words, the same programmers who write more code also tend to write higher quality code.
That bad code that can be improved by removing 80% of it was probably written very slowly and laboriously.
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus