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		cptaj on Oct 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitt... And if you indeed make "more lines!" the guiding metric for developer performance, you're setting yourself up for a world of pain because they will sure as hell find out and start gaming the metric. This will lead to a feedback loop of rising expenses and tech debt.

idontwantthis on Oct 30, 2022 [–]

As a Vim user, I’ll happily expand my for loops with just a couple of key presses

akomtu on Oct 30, 2022 | | [–]

Another technique is "versioning" when instead of fixing a function, you duplicate it and slowly migrate callers of this function to its new version.

vimwannabe on Oct 30, 2022 | | [–]

How do you do the increments smartly

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