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"According to one specialist, the Web site contains about 500 million lines of software code." And you guys believe that so call "specialist" without any proof
by inovator 13y ago
"According to one specialist, the Web site contains about 500 million lines of software code."
And you guys believe that so call "specialist" without any proof?...What happened to HN? :/
- shard972 13y agoIt was good enough for the New York Times though?
- colinbartlett 13y agoIt's disheartening to think they actually took that statement and printed it without verification. This simple chart illustrates how foolish that was.
- inovator 13y agoThey will print anything for views
- fiatmoney 13y agoJournalists are equal only to lawyers in their dislike of math.
- paulrademacher 13y agoYup this is obviously bullshit. If each LOC generated 16 bytes of native code, the executable would be 7.5GB.
- res0nat0r 13y agoIt fits the current meme here that anything related to the US government technology wise must automatically be evil and/or incompetent.
- Lewton 13y agoAll the threads about this 500m line claim has been filled to the brim with people highly skeptical about the claim. No, "HN" does not believe the 500m LOC claim