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**** me, is that all? You would never make a contractor. I remember coding over 1.2 million in one year alone (admittedly it was COBOL!)Originally posted by AtW View PostI use wc -l to count those. Not very accurate since it does not reflect code changes during debugging, a lot of stuff got rewritten few times over. 250k over 4 years gives around 200 lines per day
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Is that the number of years before the Ska thing will be operational?Originally posted by AtW View PostThirty five.
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Contractors need to know how to be productive enough to appear worthwhile to keep around but not too productive that the end goal is reached without stretching the contract out to its maximum timeframe possible.Originally posted by darmstadt View Post**** me, is that all? You would never make a contractor. I remember coding over 1.2 million in one year alone (admittedly it was COBOL!)
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Yes, though soon there will be forward looking invoices but I generally tend to count only those that already have got money in the bank basically.Originally posted by ThomasSoerensen View PostConservative good principle.
Lines comparison between different languages is not very good, if good at all - for me it's an amusing measure to see from time to time, I measure the progress in implemented features rather than lines of code.Originally posted by darmstadt View Post**** me, is that all? You would never make a contractor. I remember coding over 1.2 million in one year alone (admittedly it was COBOL!)Comment
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What happens if a hedge fund wants to become a client and give you some of their immorally earned money?ǝןqqıʍComment
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Highly unlikely event due to my product being well outside of what hedge funds need for their operations.Originally posted by DiscoStu View PostWhat happens if a hedge fund wants to become a client and give you some of their immorally earned money?Comment
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Alexey,
as you know I am a big supporter of SKA, that said, you must forgive for the following,
'Quote:
Originally Posted by Spacecadet
SKA has 35 lines of active code'
'AtW'
Well over 250,000 actually'
Alexey, haven't you heard of design patterns, object orientation, and code reusability ?
or,
are you simply taking the number of lines of code and multiplying it by the number of worker computers out there running the SKA widget ?
all the best, you will win, and I can't wait to see their faces
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I am a heavy used of object orientation with extensive libraries that I use all the time, that's the reason why code size is pretty low actually - design patterns malarkey can kiss my bottom thoughOriginally posted by milanbenes View PostAlexey, haven't you heard of design patterns, object orientation, and code reusability ?
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For a contract that was only 6 months long, this one went on for a year and I got another 6 years (on and off) out of it so I think it was pretty productiveContractors need to know how to be productive enough to appear worthwhile to keep around but not too productive that the end goal is reached without stretching the contract out to its maximum timeframe possible.
Agreed but at least my code is in production at a major bank, is paid for and implements a number of features such as support for distributed DB2 databases, links into CICS and IMS, has an ISPF front-end and many more. Real world versus forum world is more important...Originally posted by AtW View PostLines comparison between different languages is not very good, if good at all - for me it's an amusing measure to see from time to time, I measure the progress in implemented features rather than lines of code.“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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