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Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer by nickelpro on Friday October 08, 2021 @11:37AM (#28800432)
Bellard is who I reference in these situations also. He's a sort-of empirical refutation of the assertion "10x programmers don't exist". I always liked that he lists qemu and ffmpeg on his website as afterthoughts mixed in with all the other code he's written.
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Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer by The_Colonel on Friday October 08, 2021 @05:33PM (#28804414)
Bellard is obviously 10x (or 100x) engineer when you need to port Linux kernel to JavaScript or compute the longest Pi sequence.

But most jobs aren't like that and require a mixed skillset - problem solving, people skills, stress resistance etc. and it's entirely unclear how Bellard would fare there.

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Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer by nickelpro on Friday October 08, 2021 @07:17PM (#28805236)
But the question isn't about those skills, the question is about programming. Bellard is blatantly an insanely productive programmer.

Also if you think a man who can build an LTE base station from scratch isn't good at "problem solving" I really don't know what metric we're talking about anymore.

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Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer by The_Colonel on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @09:02AM (#28839122)
No, this is about being 10x engineer and part of the job description is much more than programming.
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