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Couple that with pay and just tell them to pay you $1 per line of code written.

# Need to increment this count so it matches up with the length of the list we just created.

count = 1

count = count + 1

Ha, I guess the developers they are hiring used to be sci-fi writers! But don't most writers say the hardest part is cutting words out of their book and cleaning up language?

P.S. I don't remember exactly what she put down as my "line-count" I was pretty annoyed at that point, it might have been a much more reasonable 5000. :-)

This reminds me of a quote I enjoy:

"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."

Some interesting attributions of that and similar quotes: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/

A good case to use code generators, I guess...

Are we counting the code my macros produce? As far as git is concerned I might be down a couple hundred to a couple thousand in a good week, but if we count macroexpansion, I'm rolling in the LoC.

Time to write yourself a private jet.

Obligatory Dilbert:

http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13