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Why would I quit from embarrassment? This doesn’t make sense.


Have you written more than a few pages of code in the past 30 days?


I’m not paid by lines of code.


Good lord no, that’s the worst metric to measure someone by. The diffs one produces on a mature codebase are usually tiny but with a small novel in the ticket about what the change will affect.

I could pump those numbers up easily but my coworkers would hate me for it.




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