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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When the metric is lines of code

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When the company tries to be cheeky and starts to count characters instead

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rename c to completelyUnimportantVariableThatISoLongBecauseIGetPaidMore

[–] PoolloverNathan 1 points 1 year ago

Just add ZWJs - they are IdentifierParts, so any language with Unicode-based identifiers (e.g. JS) lets you add them where digits can go, but they are also completely invisible.