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Re:The Nonsense of 10X Developers and GitHub as a CV by kasey_junk on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @06:43PM (#8633484)
Maybe, but most of the studies (I'm thinking of Peopleware's examples) indicate that the environment is the dominant factor and the difference in people is mostly noise.
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Re:The Nonsense of 10X Developers and GitHub as a CV by sheepmullet on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @06:55PM (#8633549)
Do they really though? Have they consistently shown you can take the developers in a bad environment and put them in a good one and they will be as productive?

I don't think so. I think they have simply shown that certain environments are horrible for productivity.

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