RE: [IDNO-DISCUSS] Re: [IFWP] Why fail on purpose

Roeland M.J. Meyer (rmeyer@mhsc.com)
Sat, 17 Jul 1999 12:52:41 -0700

> >I'll offer the same thing for lower cost, on my servers, and I will
> >throw in some security expertise as well. Sound fair?
>
> Go for it. You didn't understand how the password system
> works on the IDNO
> voting site, so I don't hold up hope that you have the ability to put
> together anything better, or have the prerequisite expertise to do it.
>
> Stick to your day job.

I doubt that the man has ever written more than 20,000 lines of code in
his entire carrer.

For those who don't know about programming, that number may sound fairly
high. However, the average code count, for a small project, is over
10,000 lines of code (LOC) and takes over 6 months (fully tested). Most
commercial projects involve over 500,000 LOC. The average programmer is
good for about 20-40 thousand tested LOC per year. The good ones hit the
high-side. Over a 20-year carreer, that's close to half a million lines
of code.