https://www.folklore.org/Joining_Apple_Computer.html
https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html --- something to bring up whenever lines of code as a metric is put forward
https://www.folklore.org/Rosings_Rascals.html --- story of how the Macintosh Finder came to be
https://www.folklore.org/I_Still_Remember_Regions.html --- surviving a car accident
This lesson stuck with me for years. Final results alone are measurable, not productivity.
> Final results alone are measurable
Not even those, for individuals
Mostly we work in teams. I myself like to work in "plumbing" that is arbitrarily far from "final results"
Code that’s 4K and took slightly less time to write but runs slightly faster than code that’s 400 bytes that took another 30m to write still doesn’t get the best score.
What about correctness, robustness, readability, clarity, maintainability?