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eviksyesterday at 9:12 AM1 replyview on HN

> It’s a guideline ... Pick a number

It's using a parameter of secondary importance as a primary, so it's wrong with any number. The comment even has a helpful analogy to LOCs. People need to stop freaking out over reasonable, well-intentioned criticism of guidelines as if they were arguing something else like misundertstanding of that strictness of rules.


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stousetyesterday at 8:33 PM

Until we have an absolute metric to use for measuring comprehensibility, composability, and number of high-level concepts addressed by some unit of code, highly-correlated secondary metrics will have to suffice.

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