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Re:A personal story about 10× development by omegabravo on Friday July 19, 2019 @07:07AM (#20477600)
likewise, it's weird to see people compare Usain Bolt who's only concern is to run for 100m in a straight line, with the complex diverse field of software engineering. Winning in a 100m sprint is a simple contest to measure. You win or you don't. The parent raised perfectly relevant qualifiers that were summarily dismissed because the hypothetical 10X programmers exist.

It's hard to argue against excellent programmers, statistically they must exist. All this work identifying them and the qualities is a bit silly when it's hard to even define the term.

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Re:A personal story about 10× development by Nyandalized on Friday July 19, 2019 @07:47AM (#20477810)
I think it's a perfectly valid analogy;

A runner is doing everything you'd be doing running, but more, and can achieve far greater speeds that you ever can.

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