From what I remember, typical new C++ debugged code speed is about 20-25K lines per year, lines that are non-blank, non-comment and not completely verifiable by compiler. E.g., standalone bracket or comma or semicolon are not lines of code, function header is too not a line of code, but computation, conditions and loops are. This is from old IBM statistics, I learned about it circa 2007.
If we assume that there are 50 weeks per year, this gives us about 400-500 lines of code per week. Even at long average 65 chars per line, it goes not higher than 33K bytes per week. Your comment is about 1250 bytes long, if you write four such comments per day whole week, you would exceed that 33K bytes limit.
I mean this genuinely and in good faith in case you didn’t already know it: the term for “non-blank, non-comment…” in programming is usually “Significant Lines Of Code” or SLOC.
In what way? You're either very young or very old, right? Voice-to-text has been a common way to input text online since iPhone. Someone commented on HN != they typed that many words with their fingers.
I strongly believe you can use voice-to-text for coding.
If the person I replied do use voice-to-text, their mention of carpal syndrome is moot and this is amusing. If they do not use voice-to-text, it is still amusing in the sense of my previous comment.
Or, you know, it's far easier to input natural language with voice-to-text than coding with voice-to-text, so even if they can write long comments on HN, coding is still a problem?
Nah, impossible. They must be making up their carpal syndrome because nothing is ever real.
Yes, I checked their history of comments before posting. It made me confident that I hit the right note.
My software engineering experience longs almost 37 years now (December will be anniversary), six-to-seven years more than Earth's human population median age. I had two burnouts through that time, but no carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms at all. When I code, I prefer to factor subproblems out, it reduces typing and support costs.
If we assume that there are 50 weeks per year, this gives us about 400-500 lines of code per week. Even at long average 65 chars per line, it goes not higher than 33K bytes per week. Your comment is about 1250 bytes long, if you write four such comments per day whole week, you would exceed that 33K bytes limit.
I find this amusing.