That’s what this is satirizing, yeah
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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 11 months agoWasn’t he firing people based on number of, or lack of, code commits at one point? Even if this isn’t real, it’s still very on-brand.
MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Icalasari@kbin.social 11 months ago
Wait this is satire?
MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Yeah, it’s hilariously close to the truth.
InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 11 months ago
He was also doing that examination by having people print out the code for him to read apparently
PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Surprised the dude didn’t have them fax it in at this point
odium@programming.dev 11 months ago
Lines of code too iirc. This is about equally accurate.
jonne@infosec.pub 11 months ago
My most productive days have ended with negative LOC. It’s such a trash metric that only someone that’s never been a developer could dream up.
AA5B@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was at a company once where they didn’t understand how bad this metric was. They worshipped this one guy who would work all night and have a record number of lines of code changed.
They thought he was a programming god.
I realized he knew how to do “refactor” in his IDE, and every day the class hierarchy would change