iceman comments on Bragging Thread, June 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: iceman 10 June 2014 08:58:33PM 9 points [-]

At work, I launched the project that I've been working on for the last two years, which deleted over 100,000 lines of unmaintained legacy code and I got promoted for doing so.

Comment author: David_Gerard 14 June 2014 10:54:10PM 1 point [-]

Deletion is a marvellously productive thing. I marvel at projects like LibreOffice, X.Org and LibreSSL, deleting hundreds of thousands of lines from a huge and complicated project.