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Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer by karatestomp on Monday February 17, 2020 @05:07PM (#22351309)
Environment and control (true ownership) can easily turn 1x into 10x, I'd say. Not saying I could churn out Rollercoaster Tycoon but I bet I'd look, by every metric both reasonable and unreasonable, a hell of a lot more productive working on a game solo with 100% control of all decisions and not having to fret about having something to report in standup every day versus... normal work.
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Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer by passivepinetree on Monday February 17, 2020 @09:06PM (#22352821)
There’s an easy way to find out if that’s true, and it’s to making a similarly successful solo project by yourself!
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Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer by karatestomp on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @12:53AM (#22353803)
Productively building and finding the right thing to build to be successful are different things, and one can be good at either while being terrible at the other.
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Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer by ClumsyPilot on Monday February 17, 2020 @10:04PM (#22353105)
Please dont say that, it's very, very easy to produce beautiful code that will never make any money!
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