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Re:Are You a 10x Programmer? Or Just a Jerk? by rhapsodic on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @06:08PM (#17412278)
>This article is strange, they provide lots of counter evidence that in fact there are 10x programmers.

Yeah. It looks like the author laid out her views in the first sentence.

  > The myth of the 10x programmer persists, but the 
  > shine is wearing off.
"Myth" implies that they're non-existent, and "the shine is wearing off" implies that she doesn't much care for them whether or not they exist.
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Re:Are You a 10x Programmer? Or Just a Jerk? by std_throwaway on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @06:20PM (#17412356)
Donald Knuth's contributions are probably 3x of the average. You could easily hire three average computer scientists to do his work...

...or maybe there is something to the "myth" that some people contribute extraordinary achievements in a their field.

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