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Lines of code is not, and will never be a metric for gauging project contribution. Most of that 850,000 lines of code is likely boilerplate setup code.
by alukima 7y ago
Lines of code is not, and will never be a metric for gauging project contribution.
Most of that 850,000 lines of code is likely boilerplate setup code.
- sodafountan 7y ago850,000 loc vs what looks to be an initial commit and a merge: https://github.com/klbouman/hopstools/commits?author=klbouman https://github.com/klbouman/hopstools/commits?author=klbouma... if I'm wrong here please point it out
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- jachee 7y ago"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." —Bill Gates
- throc3 7y agohttps://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01413 https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01413 You're an idiot. She's been at this almost longer than you've had a job.
- danso 7y agoIncredible, that a purported programmer/software engineer in 2019 thinks that someone's Github commit history is the sum total of all their work. Not only that, you seem to be completely ignorant of how to find someone's Github commits to repos that aren't owned by their account. https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging/graphs/contributors https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging/graphs/contributors
- sodafountan 7y agoYou're right, I had assumed that the project that she was the owner of on her github portfolio was her primary contribution - I jumped to conclusions without digging any deeper and I'd delete the comment if Hacker News would let me.
- mst 7y agoI fear people are down voting you for having been wrong originally rather than for this comment. Which is a shame, because we all do things this stupid sometimes and your frank admission of having done so is laudable. Nil desperandum carborundum illegitimi.
- raydev 7y agoOkay, how about tweets from Andrew Chael himself? https://twitter.com/thisgreyspirit/status/1116518547327475712 https://twitter.com/thisgreyspirit/status/111651854732747571...