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Re:I was a 10x engineer and I’m sorry by tuvan on Thursday July 18, 2019 @12:16PM (#20471324)
Are you saying there are no dramatically more effective programmers because you encountered a bug that would be difficult for everyone to reproduce? Even if task X takes the same time for 2 people, one is more effective in the end than the other if they can do task Y in less time/more efficiently/some other performance metric.
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Re:I was a 10x engineer and I’m sorry by Vinnl on Thursday July 18, 2019 @03:38PM (#20473223)
No, I was wondering whether this task was of category X, or if it was of category Y and there's some strategy better engineers than me employ that I can learn from.
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