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Coomitter be like (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 months ago (10 children)

It's a picture of the people who submit zero value comment spelling fixes to the Linux kernel so they can claim "I've submitted X patches to the Linux kernel" for KPIs or resume building

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Hey man, I once had an engineering exec (who didn’t last very long) who decided engineers would be stack ranked by SLOC. You can imagine how easy that metric was to cheese, and you can also imagine exactly how that policy turned out.

Give an engineer a stupid metric to meet, and they’ll find a stupid way to meet it for you, if only out of malicious compliance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

When metrics become targets they fail to be metrics any more

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