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		chrisseaton on Nov 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Air cargo is suddenly affordable relative to ocean... Journalists are paid by the word. Imagine if programmers were paid like that!

toss1 on Nov 16, 2021 [–]

Ha! Yet 'Lines Of Code' are still mentioned as a metric...

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