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by maceurt 1950 days ago
It shouldn't take 10 lines an hour should it? I don't have experience reviewing professional code of this size, so please correct me if my assumption is wrong, but that number doesn't seem right.
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As part of a quality control team, I personally went through over 1.2 million lines of working code (i.e. not including comments) over the span of about 8 months, M-F, 9am-5pm.

So, yeah - this number is bunk.

It really isn't. Most of the code is probably going to be uninteresting and you can do 10 lines a minute or more. Some of the code will be more relevant and might take a day for 10 lines. This would just be checking for accuracy though so you could probably just ignore a huge chunk of it.
I'd say more like ten lines a second, if you're skimming it to look for something. And of course, the work can be parallelized.
Is this satire?
I'm not sure what you mean. What numbers would you call realistic?
"With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow^h^h^h^h^h^h buried in the critical open source dependancy underpinning the entire internet maintained by that one guy who's holding down a day job and doing it in his spare time." -- with apologies to Linus

(As always, XKCD beat me to this gag: https://xkcd.com/2347/ )