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So they claim the change to node reduces the 60k lines of Ruby to only 2k of node. So how did they manage to add 1,998,000 more lines of node in the next 10 years and not think something was amiss?



Developers love to armchair and then you put a bunch of them together and you inevitably end up with soaking wet bloated festering codebases like LinkedIn


> So how did they manage to add 1,998,000 more lines of node in the next 10 years (...)

Does LinkedIn have the same features it had a decade ago?

Search is far more powerful. It also shifted to add an entirely new social media dimension to it.

God knows what features were made available to recruiters and marketers.

The hard part of a web app is not the stuff you see; it's the stuff you don't even know is there.




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