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stcredzero on Oct 17, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: 99 Out Of 100 Programmers Can’t Program – I Call B...

X% of programmers can program. But they do so in such a way that when they've added N thousands of lines of code, it starts to suck.

An easy metric for suck doesn't immediately pop into my head.

nene on Oct 17, 2010 [–]

WTF's / minute ?

http://www.osnews.com/images/comics/wtfm.jpg

stcredzero on Oct 17, 2010 | [–]

Good in the aesthetic sense. Bad in that this can be easily gamed.

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