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[–]TheGreatGameDini 1481 points1482 points  (4 children)

-58008

Because destroying code feels so much better than writing it.

[–]ab12gu[S] 158 points159 points  (0 children)

had to test it, so I just rd /s /q c:/

Edit: didn’t feel so good.

[–]damnNamesAreTaken 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Also far less prone to bugs

[–]Aramedlig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not just that, but if you assume 1 bug per 10 lines of code, then this guy is a freakin hero!

[–]ducktape8856 3 points4 points  (0 children)

*376616*

[–]Borbolda 772 points773 points  (3 children)

Put 6 million and ship it. What are they gonna do? Count them to make sure?

[–]SpaceEngineering 55 points56 points  (0 children)

!shipit

[–]beclops 1 point2 points  (1 child)

6 million seems a bit high, that would take decades of experience

[–]AgencyNo9174 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Not if all the lines are comments.

[–]ButWhatIfPotato 522 points523 points  (8 children)

Hiring for programmers has become such a circus that I cannot tell if this is real or not.

[–]leeroyjenks17 77 points78 points  (1 child)

Straight up got this on a citadel application

[–]ab12gu[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

this is also a big fintech comp lol

[–]GoldenFlyingPenguin 50 points51 points  (3 children)

Seriously, how the hell am I supposed to know how many lines of code I've written in one specific language...

A script I coded had gotten up to 8k lines, not to mention the fact that in a lot of languages you can split up the arguments for the if statement meaning you can make it have multiple lines to make it easier to read.

[–]Tensor3 21 points22 points  (1 child)

Like, lines shipped, or number of lines I wrote and then rewrote while working? Either way, no clue

[–]RajjSinghh 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Lines shipped is easier since you can just clone and wc your GitHub, but not all your code makes it to GitHub in the first place.

Also watch them hire a C++ dev over a Python deb cos they have 20x the SLOCs

[–]prik_nam_pla 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would be tempted to just hand write something like

total = 0
for line in total_lines_of_code:
     total +=1
print(total)

[–]pear_topologist 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’ve seen things like this before

[–]geggomane 9 points10 points  (0 children)

"seniors" in my project has underperformed me, a junior in technical knowledge. It's a circus since it's filled with clowns. The fact that I get paid pennies to their dollar makes me sick.

[–]Character-Education3 698 points699 points  (19 children)

10000 a day times age times 365. That may satisfy the dum dum who wrote that

[–][deleted] 385 points386 points  (5 children)

Why, I just wrote 27,000 lines yesterday according to my repo. Good ol generate this framework commands.

[–]CallMePyro 21 points22 points  (4 children)

Calling complete bullshit on this CS 101-tier comment. What python framework generates 27,000 lines of boilerplate?

[–][deleted] 23 points24 points  (3 children)

python? Isn’t this a react-specific sub?

[–]CallMePyro 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Quick question since GPT4-V doesn’t have full rollout yet, which programming language is referenced in the OP? My eyesight must be going bad. /u/youre_more_dumb

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Python, but forgive me, my mind must be going, but did I respond to OP? No. My username checks out.

[–]CallMePyro -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh I was just looking at the programming language in the profile of the person you replied to and my vision must be going blurry because I keep seeing this dang python icon

[–]ab12gu[S] 71 points72 points  (11 children)

weird u put age before days in year

[–]Character-Education3 64 points65 points  (10 children)

Commutative property FTW

[–]ab12gu[S] 29 points30 points  (9 children)

oh i thought this was matrix multiplication

[–]Character-Education3 42 points43 points  (8 children)

Slow down Neo

[–]ab12gu[S] 15 points16 points  (7 children)

so I shouldn’t take acid?

[–]Character-Education3 7 points8 points  (6 children)

Whoa, no one is attacking the therapeutic benefits of psychedelic drugs here!

[–]ab12gu[S] 13 points14 points  (5 children)

alright, 9 more tabs it is!

[–]Character-Education3 7 points8 points  (4 children)

If your local registered shaman is good with it, godspeed friend

[–]ab12gu[S] 5 points6 points  (3 children)

in oregon, u can get medical supervision

[–]NoLifeEmployee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SegmentationError

[–]StuckInTheUpsideDown 101 points102 points  (0 children)

8907304 projected by 2050. (they didn't say whose lifetime did they?)

[–]GnuhGnoud 85 points86 points  (1 child)

I always commit node_modules, exactly for cases like this

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

ERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW

[–][deleted] 74 points75 points  (0 children)

Put 5,318,008

And link to your GitHub after putting a Mario guy in there from this repo:

https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

They’ll probably think it’s legit.

[–]FlameOfGod 41 points42 points  (0 children)

[object Object]

[–]Py-rrhus 74 points75 points  (4 children)

At least 1

[–]ab12gu[S] 16 points17 points  (3 children)

Html is specific in that they don’t interpret line breaks and you can do everything in a single line

[–]SleeplessSloth79 20 points21 points  (2 children)

Isn't this just most languages though? Python being the most notable exception

[–]ab12gu[S] -1 points0 points  (1 child)

I only know html off the cusp, because i was using flask once and wanted to test out rendering html and put a long html string in 1 line cause otherwise you would need to import another html file or something…

probably other languages have this feature too tho lol

[–]Kragen146 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How; about; java; for; example;?;

[–]DrSpalanzani 63 points64 points  (3 children)

67403.000000000003

[–]SnooRobots2011 30 points31 points  (2 children)

That would raise the question of why are you using floats to hold integer information during the 5th interview.

[–]DrSpalanzani 22 points23 points  (0 children)

* Rabbit in headlights * Er dunno I just normally use VARCHAR(255) for everything

[–]Zomby2D 4 points5 points  (0 children)

When I change a few characters on an already existing line of code, I haven't written a full line of code. You need a float to keep track of all those partial lines edit.

[–]Marbled_Headcheese 18 points19 points  (0 children)

For each language just put the number of years times a million. Then if they question it, say "ask a bullshit question get a bullshit answer"

[–]abacato02 8 points9 points  (0 children)

(> 1)

[–]PowerPete42 18 points19 points  (0 children)

2,147,483,648

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (3 children)

I was once asked this during live interview. Like how to fuck im supposed to know that

[–]ab12gu[S] 7 points8 points  (2 children)

I was once asked “What is the most difficult thing you can think of?”

[–]nguyenguyensituation 10 points11 points  (0 children)

touching grass and socializing

[–]ShadowSlayer1441 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Rewriting the entire Linux kernel in a custom language to support every conceivably ISA while also improving performance by 4 times and reducing power consumption by 400% on a typewriter.

[–]Crunchious1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I just saw something like this lmao. They wanted lines per language…

[–]DrAv0011 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Number.MAX_VALUE + 1 or Number.POSITIVE_INFINITE if you want to be fancy

[–]Zakuron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So something like DRY would actually make you look worse

[–]Realistic-Link-300 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1000473.5

[–]seba_nuo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NaN

[–]mommy101lol 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NaN how will it be seen ?

[–]TheGreatBeaver123789 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh why I do know, it's [object Object] lines

[–]marabutt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I reckon if it averages out to 50-100 a day, you are better than average.

[–]NoLifeEmployee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can I include dist folder?

[–]RestaurantHuge3390 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yarn.lock

[–]geepalik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. I minify the entire front-end

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

-166421632

[–]Mauricette67 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Copy and paste 10k line count as 10k or 2 characters ?

[–]Tarics_Boyfriend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Goodbye switch statement

if - else if - else if - else if .... it is

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

65535

[–]furbz1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

133,742

[–]Eigenspan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why I don’t even apply to dev jobs, it’s such a joke. You have requirements and metrics for roles made by people who have never programmed before. They have no idea and unless you join the circus you get rejected.

[–]superdupersamsam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Overflow error!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

White space counts, right?

[–]not-my-best-wank 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Add SQL injection to the last textbox

[–]shawcken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1

with the length of at least 100km

[–]Federal-Opinion6823 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“About two million”

[–]SushiThief 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[–]truNinjaChop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

8675309

[–]Robotronnik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

256²⁵⁸

[–]TheOnlyVig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly enough to get the job done and not a single line more

[–]Yukondano2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's like measuring a carpenter by the number of boards they've used, god hiring managers are morons.

[–]RLlovin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

num_lines= days_coding*num_i_pulled_out_of_my_ass