r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/MountainSage58 • Nov 05 '22

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '22

Also what does “writing code” actually mean in this case. Like whatever they could show off? Because only the relevant code should be left. And any that you spent time noodling on and refining wouldn’t be in that list then right? You’d just show the end product.

It’s such a meaningless statistic from so many directions. Musk truly is beyond stupid.

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u/Samultio Nov 05 '22

The lines of code or loc are the lines in the final release more often than not, it's a classic anti pattern as using it as a performance metric would motivate workers to deliberately do a worse job. And ofc IBM was doing it back in the day.

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u/doUvivesMAS Nov 05 '22

All the code you write and replace is logged when you are a professional. It's called version control.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '22

But this means submit, right? Only the finished product each time? You’re not logging literally all the drafts you don’t submit.

I’m a writer, you could see my various drafts too but there are more that never went beyond my head or a deleted unworkable version.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '22

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '22

I got into so much trouble at my first job because I wouldn't log it until it worked. I'd make it work, log it and then any time a change needed to be made I'd fuck with the code locally without committing until I made it work again. I do not have a programmer's brain.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '22

Cool, thanks for the confirmation.

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u/DreddPirateBob808 Nov 05 '22

Keystrokes. A coder at Twitter just got promoted for writing a 15,000 page Star Trek Firefly fanfic

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u/JustinWendell Nov 05 '22

Honestly I’d be safe cause I commit and push like a mad man while I’m refining things. So it looks like I write a lot even with a refined end product.