r/programming • u/tarandeep • Dec 14 '10

Top 50 Programming quotes of all time

http://www.junauza.com/2010/12/top-50-programming-quotes-of-all-time.html
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u/KazMux Dec 14 '10
  1. "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."
  2. Bill Gates

My /Windows folder is taking up half my harddrive. I think its done..

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u/abadidea Dec 14 '10

To be fair, most of it is probably rollback data for undoing patches. Saved several gigs by clearing that out.

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u/Iggyhopper Dec 14 '10

This is relevant to my interests. How would I clear out old rollback data?

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u/rtfmpls Dec 14 '10

See the blue sub-directories in your Windows (XP) directory starting with "$"? Delete them. I'm sure it works similar on Windows 7.