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DeepDuh on July 31, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Intuit Manages 10 Million Lines of Code

Reminds me of that anecdote about Bill Atkinson (http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com/questions/380/070/7.html) and his negative 2000 LOC report.

anthonyb on July 31, 2012 [–]

Or Bill Gates and his (apocryphal?) quote about airplanes and weight: http://thinkexist.com/quotation/measuring_programming_progre...

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