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>Both of those metrics are incredibly shit ways to measure productivity.

In theory yes. In practice, when you know your team and their average output and quality, no.

>I guess thats one explanation as to why the facebook app is 200mb+. They've been superproductive with all those lines of code

Or you know, most of it is assets, debugging symbols, stray frameworks and libs not stripped, etc. As is the case with almost any app beyond a few MB.



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