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This reminds me of the time managers tried to judge developer productivity based on lines of code changed. The person who ran the build script to generate the minified output for production kept winning. Mgmt was like why is this person generating 10x what you all do. #rockstardevelopers


Alternatively: "Dude, your stats say you're only ever changing a single line. WHAT are you doing?". ;)


Or the lines of code committed to mainline, and that one guy who pulls from the branch where everyone else did the work.

Don't assume this "oversight" is an accident or result of stupidity. In one case it was absolutely used to justify a promotion of a yes man.




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