The instructions a programmer writes when creating a program. Lines of code are the "source code" of the program, and one line may generate one machine instruction or several depending on the ...

One of the most insightful articles that I have read (in terms of both general daily life and a software development career) is Steven Kerr’s On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B. In this ...

...only this time, in reference to the average number of lines of code each programmer on a particular team should be responsible for supporting/maintaining. Because of all the variables involved, I ...

A military drone has 3.5 million lines of code inside. That’s roughly three times as many as we find in bacteria, meaning that mankind has, at least by one metric, constructed semi-autonomous ...

Last weekend, some anonymous “specialist” told the New York Times that “5 million lines of software code may need to be rewritten” in order to fix the mess that is healthcare.gov. (The good news, ...

Go ahead and take a wild guess as to how many lines of code make up the entirety of Google's services. We're talking everything here — search, Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs etc. Now you might want to ...

Google share stats on the volume of code it manages and, not surprisingly, it’s a whole heck of a lot Software code, it seems, is all around us today. It’s in obvious places like your computer, tablet ...

Andrei Alexandrescu is, according to his website, a research scientist at Facebook, and he’s just announced via a tweet that he’s just completed the “First D language commit at Facebook. 5112 lines of ...

While Microsoft and Apple don’t release the source code for their operating systems, a good estimate is that it takes around 50 million lines of code to run these software behemoths. The Linux kernel ...