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code_duck on Oct 21, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Contractors See Weeks of Work on Health Site

Simply measuring the web site in 'lines of code' as if that's meaningful indicates that it's a quote by someone who is not aware of how modern programming works.

hga on Oct 21, 2013 [–]

Disagree, perhaps. If you were talking to a New York Times reporter, with an intended lay audience, how would you describe scope issues like this?

And while it's a poor metric, lines of code is not completely useless.

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