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Throw out your code (railsfreak.com)
22 points by joshowens on April 23, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



Am I the only one who gets some kind of perverse pleasure from using C-k in emacs or dd in vim? There's just something so pleasing about deleting a large block of code one line at a time.


Removing code is the best! I love commits where git says my deletes were higher than my inserts.


Nah. I've tossed ~7k lines in my current project. It's like putting on a new pair of socks, it feels good to get rid of the older stuff.


C-w: go big or go home.


Just got done rewriting our companies stats server, that was processing logfiles with ruby...bleh. Now using Resque and a few awk scripts I cut a 2 day job down to an hour. The code was written when our logs were small now we need something faster, and just happened to be alot less code.




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