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Hmm. I've found that it's much easier and faster to write a lot of code than to take the time and be thoughtful of what you end up shipping.

> I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. Mark Twain [0]

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That’s true to an extend, but you need to work to make that much code.

Not necessarily — I've had the misfortune of working with someone who repeatedly, rather than subclass, duplicated the entire file.

Including the comments I'd added saying "TODO: de-duplicate this method".

That only got the project up to about 120 kloc before I'd had enough of that nonsense and left.

My understanding is that line count was mostly down to that one dev, as he didn't only ignore what I had to say when I was there, he also ignored the occasional contractor.

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