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[–] becausechemistry@lemm.ee 57 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Management: Gee whiz, we really have no idea how to gauge productivity to decide who gets promoted. We could manage. Or, better, we could just have someone write a script that pulls info from git on how many lines of code each person has written.

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[–] curiousaur@reddthat.com 22 points 3 months ago (8 children)

I promote based on lines of code removed.

[–] meiti@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I love deleting code, including my own, more than writing code. That's a killer metric imo.

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