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Easy: LOC / hour.

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On an inverse scale, sure. Only the best coders have net-negative LOC/hour metrics.

This would end up with a lot of code golf.

Reaching the objective as efficiently as possible... yeah, sounds about right.

Code golf probably correlates with IQ.

Hard Mode: Removed LOC / hour.

Hardest mode: non-written code

Social-engineering your PM to remove requirements, yep.

My PM loves removing stuff from tickets.

Most of the time, what people want isn't even what they want.

I really think this is best we got so far.

So the secret to being a 10X programmer is ":set tw=8" making your maximum line length 8 characters, forcing you be 10 times more productive than rival devs who're stuck at the old 80 character standard. Got it.

I think reading code deliniated into lines 8 characters code, written by somebody else, with no whitespace and single letter variable names is the punishment reserved in hell for the very worst of developers.

Also known as reading Arthur Whitney's code.[0]

[0] http://kparc.com/b/

I hope hell is as engaging and rewarding as that.

The only difference between hell and heaven is that in one, you end up understanding what you read. ;-)

Or you can move around code creating large diffs and when asked why: just say "I'm familiarizing myself with the code" -- real story: my boss says about that person that he is the most productive programmer.

It seems gaming trivial metrics works in this case.

1. no one will be allowed to do that if you work in a team environment.

2. No one has been able to come up with a better alternative.

I wasn't implying its a prefect metric or even a reasonable one. If you really need a quantifiable metric then thats all we got.

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