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Re:Are You a 10x Programmer? Or Just a Jerk? by rhapsodic on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @06:03PM (#17412234)
> If there’s someone on a team doing 10x more average code than his or her peers it’s by avoiding other work that isn’t being tracked as carefully.

You can't possibly know that for a fact.

Oh, and "someone on a team doing 10x more average code than his or her peers" is not what 10x programmer refers to.

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Re:Are You a 10x Programmer? Or Just a Jerk? by ljw1001 on Saturday June 30, 2018 @05:09PM (#17432761)
I dumped the database of the bug-tracking and code review systems we used, and analyzed those, by developer, matching them up to the same kind of deep analysis of subversion commits i used to look at coding productivity. This was a 5 year project with something like 60 devs. So yeah, I can know that.

BTW, if you think I can know that, you also seem to think that it's ok to say someone is 10X better than someone else at something that can't be measured.

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Re:Are You a 10x Programmer? Or Just a Jerk? by std_throwaway on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @06:12PM (#17412308)
> You can't possibly know that for a fact.

That's the nature of this beast.

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