Not Invented Here – #20 Code does not equal project

This episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/GygkIBWMp6Y Software projects are so much more than just writing code. It is impossible to replicate entire project with any number of lines of code. * There is a bold claim about "How I replicated an $86 million project in 57 lines of code" (https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-i-replicated-an-86-million-project-in-57-lines-of-code-277031330ee9), but the author confesses "to be fair, I have absolutely no clue what the $86M figure includes…" * Analysis of the limitations of the technical side of the proposed solution, which likely preclude its use for building real-time system: "How I failed to replicate an $86 million project in 1 line of code" (https://medium.com/@ryanfb/how-i-failed-to-replicate-an-86-million-project-in-1-line-of-code-615048a1f9d0) * A case for order of magnitude difference in effort depending on detailed requirements: printing a file to the console * Naïve implementation is 2 lines of code in Python * Gracefully handling printing a huge 4Gb file from USB stick, which is ejected, requires a lot more work * Don’t think someone is stupid. Instead try to understand why they do what they do.