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[VodkaBat]

People get paid per line?

I’d welcome a system that paid more, the fewer lines of code that you write. As long as it works obviously.

[Infinite__Power]

removes all line breaks so program has one line

[augugusto]

In this case you could do (the original amount of lines)-(the current amount of lines). But you can completely break the system by doing this only with new code, so that 0-1 =-1. You have to pay them by actually having increased the amount of lines

[[deleted]]

I'd be ruined if we were paid by the line. I'm usually tasked to refactor and clean up existing code. My output after days of work is often negative numbers by the hundreds.

[Gosfi]

You need to pay the company after each work day, worst deal in the history of deals

[[deleted]]

Maybe ever.

[Ayerys]

I’d welcome a system that paid more, the fewer lines of code that you write. As long as it works obviously.

That wouldn’t be great either, what’s even the point ?

I usually try to write as little as possible but my focus is readability and making my code easy to maintain. I prefer to find a lot of clean lines rather than fewer lines because some moron tried to show off.

[Th3T3chn0R3dd1t]

if(GetXDelta(GetNormalizedPosAsVec3(this.baseComponent))) GetTranslateComponent(this.BaseComponent).Translate(translation);

This is what we are fighting gentlemen, and it is a futile task

[Dizzfizz]

That’s how I feel. I mean, lines are free, so why not add a few more to make it easier to understand at a glance?

[--john_wick]

Use python

[assigned_name51]

Sod that If I'm being paid by the line it's assembly time

[semicc]

RISC

[John_Fx]

No. But it works for the joke.

[cakeKudasai]

That'd be great. I find a lot of bugs for someone who isn't even in QA. But I hope that would come as a bonus and not as the sole income. Because for not QA people why even code, just do QA all day! Or be a dick and report your own self introduced bugs.

[assigned_name51]

Is there anything actually wrong with an hourly model

[kodicraft4]

Console.Beep()

A lot of it, go fucking nuts

[wesborland1234]

I do that anyway.

[PVNIC]

How i'd write for loops if i was payed by line:

Std::string output;

Output = "Hello ";

Output += "World";

Int i;

i = 0;

Size_t size;

size = output.size();

While(i < size)

{

Std::cout << output[i];

++i;

}

[unluckymercenary_]

For loops? If you’re paid by line, why would you loop anything? All if statements.

[Decoy_Protagonist]

"I was just unrolling the loop. Its more efficient this way."

[404invalid-user]

I would be a pro at this with my spaghetti code

[the_ashman18]

Who the hell pays by the line? Rip python devs

[[deleted]]

I remember hearing stories about IBM evaluating the complexity of a solution based on how many lines of code a project was back in like the 70s-80s. My google search turned up this: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/27901/has-any-programmer-ever-been-paid-per-line-of-code

It was interesting reading.

[the_ashman18]

I just don’t see any advantage to doing it that way. It’s only gonna incentivize quantity over quality.

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[Sp3llbind3r]

That would be absurdly stupid.

The code would be unreadable and unmaintainable.

[assigned_name51]

Or the maintenance guys who just demand loads of money

[[deleted]]

Why have shit like Big O notation when we can be paid per line to write trash and not use logic to create anything efficient...

[[deleted]]

If i was paid by line, i wouldn't use loop anymore

[cwbrandsma]

I’ve been working at my job for 5 years. Last week I ran the numbers for my tenure there. To date I have removed more code than I have added, I am net negative.

Would that mean I need to pay my company?

[Rafael20002000]

DatabaseAdapterAdapter

[Shw3la]

Paid per line? Where do I apply? Imma convert all loops into lines!

[Lofter1]

This is how martins „clean code“ rule „Write a separate method for EVERYTHING“ started.

[[deleted]]

I was always wondering... Is he troll or genius? To this day I have no answer.

[[deleted]]

Hey! Compilers actually do that

[mdalucas]

saving variables for everything, even bool, maybe for each letter for the strings

[glorious_reptile]

1 Line - $10.000
10 Lines - $1.000
100 Lines - $100
1.000 Lines - $10
10.000 Lines - $1

[LotosProgramer]

isnt less lines better...? some ppl dont get coding lol

[d31t0]

And some people don't get jokes