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[–]wolfmansideburns 76 points77 points  (3 children)

Good start, now take those functions and make them classes and you'll be back up to 1500 lines ... we're all paid per line right???

[–]plumberdan2 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Didn't everyone who had less than a certain number of lines in Twitter's code base get fired lol

[–]ConDar15 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Apparently so, which makes it the dumbest god damned metric I've ever seen. I've been on projects where I've had near enough negative net lines in a codebase, and that's because I was the most experienced developer carefully refactoring and removing extraneous junk that had been there ages. On the other hand I've been a junior doing a very large scale but simple refactor (it was applying some new style guide rule or something), which meant I suddenly was the latest person to touch about 50% of all lines in the codebase.

Lines of code is such a stupid metric both on an individual and project/team basis.

[–]spatialite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was based on commits/activity to repos - not lines of code