• FoundTheVegan@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Fake for any of those wondering.

    But keeping employees based on how many lines of code they have written, which he did, is essentially the same logic.

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      10 months ago

      Ernest Hemingway was paid by the word, which shows in his work. I imagine this pay structure would have a similar effect on how people code.

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        10 months ago

        Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought that saying was for Dickens? Wasn’t Hemingway famously terse?