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7 AristotlePagaltzis 1 An [Acronym] with many meanings.<br><br>:
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6 AristotlePagaltzis 3 __L__ines __O__f __C__ode:
4 An incredibly poor measure of the size of a project sometimes used by [Management] in SoftwareEngineering.
5 The main virtue of lines of code as a measurement is that it is quick and easy to calculate and can be performed on any ProgrammingLanguage.
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6 AristotlePagaltzis 7 __L__ibrary __O__f __C__ongress:
8 This is a unit of storage capacity or rate of transmission, as in "our highspeed link could transfer 3 library of congresses ''(sic)'' in 3.5 seconds".
9 There appears to be no agreement on whether the unit represents library of congress as
10 # ASCII text files (which would be lossy, since there are many non-ASCII books and many with images)
11 # page images (at some unknown level of resolution)
12 # the metadata associated with the collections
13 # the library of congress website.
14 Generally 1 or 3 is used by vendors and reporters, since it results in bigger throughput.
4 JohnMcPherson 15
6 AristotlePagaltzis 16 __Loc__ation:
8 AristotlePagaltzis 17 A type of [DNS] ResourceRecord.