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0 pointsthijsvandien7y ago0 comments

What would you consider the main cause(s) of that?

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The job of a programmer is to write code, so that’s what they do. I doubt there are very many people at Dropbox whose job it is to remove code!

That’s an extremely narrow definition of a programmer’s job.

I think that in terms of lines if code, my contribution to many projects was net negative.

I dunno - refactoring often involves removal of a fair bit of code

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panic7y ago

The job of a programmer is to write code, so that’s what they do. I doubt there are very many people at Dropbox whose job it is to remove code!

That’s an extremely narrow definition of a programmer’s job.

I think that in terms of lines if code, my contribution to many projects was net negative.

I dunno - refactoring often involves removal of a fair bit of code

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