Comments on: Real life lessons: take your code and shove it! http://marianoiglesias.com.ar/programming/real-life-lessons-take-your-code-and-shove-it/ A glimpse at a coder's troubled mind Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:12:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: David Garcia Watkins [Visitor] http://marianoiglesias.com.ar/programming/real-life-lessons-take-your-code-and-shove-it/comment-page-1/#comment-77 David Garcia Watkins [Visitor] Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:16:00 +0000 http://marianoiglesias.com.ar/1/real-life-lessons-take-your-code-and-shove-it/#comment-77 Believe me, I know perfectly what you are talking about because I have been in that situation a couple of times.<br /> <br /> But in my experience, sometimes it happens due to standards that aren't deeply understood.<br /> <br /> For example, I once worked with the following rule: "if a function has more than 10 lines, something is wrong and you need to split it."<br /> <br /> This could be good rule (with exceptions) if you understand its purpose, but if you blindly follow it you can easily end up with the above code.<br /> <br /> Good day! Believe me, I know perfectly what you are talking about because I have been in that situation a couple of times.

But in my experience, sometimes it happens due to standards that aren’t deeply understood.

For example, I once worked with the following rule: “if a function has more than 10 lines, something is wrong and you need to split it.”

This could be good rule (with exceptions) if you understand its purpose, but if you blindly follow it you can easily end up with the above code.

Good day!

]]> By: Jason Leveille [Visitor] http://marianoiglesias.com.ar/programming/real-life-lessons-take-your-code-and-shove-it/comment-page-1/#comment-76 Jason Leveille [Visitor] Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:19:00 +0000 http://marianoiglesias.com.ar/1/real-life-lessons-take-your-code-and-shove-it/#comment-76 As I don't have much experience with freelance work (I work for a fantastic software development company), perhaps I'm unfamiliar with the practice of charging more based on the amount of source code. Even as a freelancer you must develop a project scope prior to committing to a project. So, strictly speaking, I'm assuming you are translating more lines of code to more man hours for the freelancer, therefore more money. Is that the case? As I don’t have much experience with freelance work (I work for a fantastic software development company), perhaps I’m unfamiliar with the practice of charging more based on the amount of source code. Even as a freelancer you must develop a project scope prior to committing to a project. So, strictly speaking, I’m assuming you are translating more lines of code to more man hours for the freelancer, therefore more money. Is that the case?

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