{"id":654,"date":"2007-02-06T23:57:24","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T07:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/06\/a-statistic-on-programmers\/"},"modified":"2007-02-07T00:08:44","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T08:08:44","slug":"a-statistic-on-programmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/06\/a-statistic-on-programmers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Statistic on Programmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The instructor from my Java class today revealed a shocking statistic today on us programmer types &#8212; on average, a programmer writes less than 10 lines of code each hour.<\/p>\n<p>I hope the management-types never find this out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Quick. Here&#8217;s a multiple choice question:<\/p>\n<p><i>The statement above infers that programmers are:<br \/>\na. slackers<br \/>\nb. taken for granted<br \/>\nc. earning more per hour while doing less work<br \/>\nd. inefficient<br \/>\ne. masters of disguise<\/i><\/p>\n<p>NOTE: Sorry&#8230; I&#8217;ve been cramming too hard on the GRE; now everything I see is composed of multiple choices. Did I mention I hate studying for crappy and useless exams like SAT, GRE, GMAT and the like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The instructor from my Java class today revealed a shocking statistic today on us programmer types &#8212; on average, a programmer writes less than 10 lines of code each hour. I hope the management-types never find this out&#8230; Quick. Here&#8217;s a multiple choice question: The statement above infers that programmers are: a. slackers b. taken &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/06\/a-statistic-on-programmers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Statistic on Programmers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-ay","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}