MMM 10 LOC/day is not applicable because it includes the previously mentioned jacking off
Real LOC/d is going to vary widely. Support developer debugging and fixing an issue - 4 hours talking to random people, couple hours on either side digging through a codebase and documentation, total LOC: 3 for the day.
Lot of people have days of doing "non-development" tasks where you are not actually hands on keyboard but planning, diagramming, discussing, whatever it is. Those are real tasks but not the actual work part of work. 0 LOC
But when you sit down to actually build something new you are going to hit easily 1000 in a day and for somebody who is doing that every day and has figured out how to not have meetings, standup, fix bugs, works solo and doesn't need buy-in from some random dude (so don't have to explain, discuss, plan etc) those numbers are reasonable to do multiple days of the week. That's the 10x developer life except in this case clearly it should be the 100x or 1000x developer.
In short: Wide variance and it's going to be role-specific. The MMM mantra is going to be abstract/averaged enough to be irrelevant/actively harmful.
Btw I picked up MMM from one of those gay little roadside library things months back but haven't managed to actually read it yet. I feel like it would be full of good material to irritate people on this website with
There are a million of these in my neighborhood and I appreciate it. I've picked up like 4 random books in Korean and a few copies of "What Happened?" by Hillary Rodham Clinton in the past couple years.
Other winners from the random library boxes around the neighborhood:
One time a girl who was kind of a twitter micro-micro-celebrity came to my place and saw Dispatches and In Country on the bookshelf and afterward she penned this 1000-word diatribe (multiple twitter posts in a row) about "guys who read war books" and how we're all ■■■■ that read these books but stay at home and do nothing
I thought it was pretty funny because those books were just random ones I had leftover from a postmodern lit class on Vietnam-era literature and they were sitting on my bookshelf because I had never bothered to read them.
In fact my whole bookshelf is books I have never read - as soon as I read something I get rid of it as there would be no reason to keep it around unless you were going to reference it or read it again.
Some guy on the city council got removed for leaking this to the right-wing press and causing a bomb threat a year back I believe
Anyway real libraries don't work for my purposes because you have to read and then return the book - two things I am clearly not interested in if you read my earlier post.
How do I get into harvard extension school do you know
There's a pretty sick harvard bookstore (not a library) - actually two near where I live
Lot of places that you can get in as a harvard affiliate (like the only convenient local gym, concerts, a massive telescope)
Honestly I probably live in the only place in the world where you can still have this many bookstores and libraries everywhere and there's no rush to shut them down
I live like 5 mins walking from the main branch of the cambridge public library and it's a nice building and nice neighborhood to walk across
The problem is I just don't read books and have an extensive bookshelf of stuff I'm interested in but not currently reading. And I am actually not really at home that often and dont have time to just sit at home and walk around the neighborhood on the weekends
