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Internet Traffic Still Growing Quickly

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mostly-files-sent-in-order-to-have-your-advice dept.

linuxscrub writes "I guess the previous articles about internet traffic doubling/[time period] being wrong were wrong? A new IDC report states that internet traffic will nearly double annually until 2007. They even use /.'s favorite unit of capacity/storage, the LOC. They predict that internet traffic will be 64,000 LOC/day! Wow, 64000 LOC, that sure sounds impressive!!"

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  1. Re:Before you ask WTF a LOC is.... by halftrack · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Shouldn't be doing this, but I can't resist. Before the partially /.'ed article loaded I did look it up at E2:

    Lines Of Code.
    A particularly clueless method of "measuring" the output of a programmer, motivated by the fact that "we're paying her to write lines of code!"

    This ignores such trivial objective matters as the difficulty or quality of the code, as well as the obvious subjective matters (I can write 5 good lines one day and 1000 the next).

    When a suit starts talking LOC (and kLOC), it's time to break out the code generators: M4, YACC, LEX, and most importantly custom-built programs that write programs. All of these enable the programmer to leverage effort to create LOC (to use a turn of phrase said suits might understand).

    And that's just plane wrong in this context;

    LOC == Libraries of Congress

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