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Re:Ask HN: How does the 10x coder overcome configuration hea... by tonystubblebine on Saturday March 21, 2009 @03:39PM (#526482)
Are you sure these are examples of 10x programmers and not 100x programmers?
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Re:Ask HN: How does the 10x coder overcome configuration hea... by nostrademons on Saturday March 21, 2009 @04:05PM (#526526)
Personally I think they're the same creature, it's just that 100x programmers happened to work on problems that are more visible to other programmers.

I've noticed quite a few programmers inside Google that are easily the caliber of Resig or Zawinski, but I'd never heard of them outside of Google because they work on closed-source software and don't go around taking credit for their work.

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