Ankit says the readability of his code is suffering due to the dogmatic demands of his code reviewers. So how to find the right balance of brevity and readability? See the original question here.

Last week, Google engineering manager Rachel Potvin, speaking at the @Scale conference in San Jose, said that, as of last January, Google’s total code base was 2 billion lines of code.

Because of all the variables involved, I generally despise breaking down programming effort into lines of code per programmer, but this is a last resort to somehow get through to my management ...

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Using lines of code to measure effort and developer productivity often feels like something that would be another good example for this article.