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Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer by rat9988 on Monday February 17, 2020 @08:00PM (#22352497)
>What bothers me is the people that are happy to be a <1 developer.

We can't all be above average. So we are either all 1 developper, or some of us are bound to be less.

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Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer by kvb on Monday February 17, 2020 @08:22PM (#22352607)
But we can all aspire to be a >1 developer, even if we're not one currently. I don't necessarily think that contentment with being below average is universally bad (maybe it's perfectly rational given one's preferences for leisure vs. work, for example), but I'd hope that most <1 developers are juniors who hope to improve over time.
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Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer by Aeolun on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @08:46AM (#22355986)
Fair enough, but given the current ecosystem <1 still means something.

If it ever gets to the point where everyone is floating somewhere between 0.9 and 1.1, I’ll revise my statement.

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