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A good and informative read. While I'm new to programming, I have began to judge my productivity in terms of lines of code I remove, not add to a project.

Awesome. You're following in some big footsteps: http://akkartik.name/post/28672493

If all programmers did what you are doing, we would not have the problems we do.

I hope someone gives you a medal and merit badge and a cookie.

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Agreed; I now always run a minifier before committing.

Not sure if sarcastic...

Reducing lines doesn't matter. Reducing logic is what matters.

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