I get paid more than Charles Dickens per word to write code
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But I didn’t write any critically acclaimed stories, I wrote code. This is quite surprising to me as I didn’t know I was already producing work more rewarded than the writer of Great Expectations or A Christmas Carol.
I then manually looked over all commits with over 10,000 words (I’m not that hard of a worker so those surprised me.) I found that all the ones above 200,000 words are data files, libraries, compiled things, etc from open source libraries.
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