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Re:State of the 10x Programmer in 2018 by gary_bernhardt on Monday February 19, 2018 @12:33AM (#16410974)
One year of others' time saved over five years would make him a 1.2x programmer.
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Re:State of the 10x Programmer in 2018 by jerrre on Monday February 19, 2018 @01:41AM (#16411153)
Not if regular programmers create extra work.
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Re:State of the 10x Programmer in 2018 by warrenm on Monday February 26, 2018 @01:20PM (#16467581)
You forget all the time he's saved himself over that period
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Re:State of the 10x Programmer in 2018 by sunstone on Monday February 19, 2018 @02:36AM (#16411352)
That was after he picked the simple threading model. Had he picked a baroque threading model it might well have been 10x the effort for the entire project.
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