Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>SwiftOnSecurity</span></a></span> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> is <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/creative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>creative</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/intellectual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectual</span></a> labour.</p><p>Measuring a programmer's efficiency or value with easy <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/metrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metrics</span></a> like <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LinesOfCode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinesOfCode</span></a> (<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a>) or <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Commits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Commits</span></a> (<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Huawei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Huawei</span></a>) doesn't work.</p><p>In fact the latter ones did that <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LyingWithNumbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LyingWithNumbers</span></a> for <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/KPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KPI</span></a> so hard on the <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@linux" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>linux</span></a></span> / <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Kernel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kernel</span></a> that they were close to getting <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/banned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>banned</span></a> from the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LKML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LKML</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/git" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>git</span></a>.</p><p>Instead they got called out that their "code cleanup" commits are not appreciated as code <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/readability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>readability</span></a> is being a priority in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a>!</p>