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Re:The Myth of the Rockstar Programmer by SideburnsOfDoom on Sunday September 29, 2013 @07:52AM (#6464905)
Yeah. If the least productive member of the team is clueless and gets nothing done, then a competent programmer is literally infinitely more productive than that. It's not a very well-calibrated metric.
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Re:The Myth of the Rockstar Programmer by scarmig on Sunday September 29, 2013 @12:26PM (#6465583)
It's pretty typical, I'd say, for the least productive member of a set of 10 programmers to have negative productivity...
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