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brokencodeyesterday at 9:41 PM2 repliesview on HN

Every line of code is technical debt. Some of the hardest projects I’ve ever worked on involved deleting as much code as I wrote.


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patrickmayyesterday at 10:10 PM

Exactly. I once worked on a large project where the primary contractor was Accenture. They threw a party when we hit a million lines of C++. I sat in the back at a table with the other folks who knew enough to realize it should have been a wake.

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jamesfinlaysontoday at 1:37 AM

Oh yeah. At a previous job there was a guy who'd deleted more code than he'd written which I always found a little amusing.

Being in a similar position to him now though... if it can be deleted it gets deleted.