The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer (2020)

Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer (2020) by TheRealDunkirk on Friday January 20, 2023 @09:04AM (#34453253)

When you see someone who doesn't know how to open a terminal, and log into a server at the command, you can assume they also don't know much about networking, DNS, firewalls, shell scripting commands, or how to configure the services upon which the application's stack runs, like web servers, application servers, caching services, or even databases. You're right; it's trivial to teach that one thing, but that particular one thing implies a learning gap about a lot of other things.

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Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer (2020) by jason-phillips on Friday January 20, 2023 @09:33AM (#34453670)

> When you see someone who doesn't know how to open a terminal, and log into a server at the command

Maybe this person doesn't quite get how to properly not use a comma between dependent clauses. How could one trust this person to communicate well?

> networking, DNS, firewalls, shell scripting commands, or how to configure the services upon which the application's stack runs, like web servers, application servers, caching services, or even databases...

I have known plenty of gainfully employed, 25-year-old software engineers who didn't have experience with each item on this list. That's perfectly fine; it's easy to teach in one brown-bag lunch session. I'll still take the wizard because those innate abilities can't be taught.

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Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer (2020) by okamiueru on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:06PM (#34456150)

Just reading along, but man, your comment annoyed me at how unconstructive it was. Jeez.

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Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer (2020) by firsttimebigboy on Friday January 20, 2023 @01:35PM (#34457580)

the irony is going to make my head explode

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Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer (2020) by arp242 on Friday January 20, 2023 @01:47PM (#34457779)

> it's easy to teach in one brown-bag lunch session

You can teach "networking, DNS, firewalls, shell scripting commands, or how to configure the services upon which the application's stack runs" in a day? This is "Teach yourself C++ in 21 days"-type of stuff.

At any rate, I didn't read that it's not "fine" in TheRealDunkirk's comment. They were just saying that people can have wildly varying skill-sets.

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