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Re:Forbes is wrong about “Developernomics” by duggan on Saturday December 10, 2011 @07:24PM (#3338905)
Really, these are anecdotes, not evidence.

And I think he chose his words carefully, he said median, not average. Of course - to paraphrase Greg Wilson[1] - if one were to go further and compare the "best" driver to the "worst" driver, the difference would be to the power of infinity because the worst driver is dead. The comparison is not useful.

I'd love to see some studies on this sort of stuff though.

[1] "Greg Wilson - What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It's True" http://vimeo.com/9270320

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Re:Forbes is wrong about “Developernomics” by greiskul on Sunday December 11, 2011 @12:39AM (#3339374)
Great video. Do you know if the book that he mentioned, originally to be called Beautiful Evidence, but that he had to change the name, was published? By which name?
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Re:Forbes is wrong about “Developernomics” by bartschuller on Sunday December 11, 2011 @11:48AM (#3340366)
Making Software http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596808303.do
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