You could easily be one of the most effective Twitter programmers and have your net “lines added” count be NEGATIVE, because you found some inefficient or broken code and rewrote it to be simpler and better. Twitter is 16 years old at this point, it’s going to involve a LOT of editing and reviewing rather than just writing. Just like making a book, coding projects tend to start out with a lot of writing, then as they mature they shift more to editing and reviewing, as you aren’t making new things, but refining and correcting what’s already there. Programming is all three, and how much you do of each changes all the time. Or maybe you spend DAYS just reading, taking notes, looking for plot holes. You maybe add a dozen new lines, but maybe they replace a hundred lines that were worse. Yes, you can do a bunch of writing in it, but often you’re editing instead. He cannot be THAT stupidįor anyone who isn’t a programmer, to understand how bad an idea this is, programming isn’t like being a writer, it’s more like being a writer, an editor, and a test reader.
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