Programming is terrible – Lessons learned from a life wasted (2013) [video]
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#2The slides for those who prefer to skim through them before deciding if watching a 1-hour conference or not:
https://github.com/tef/emfcamp2012/raw/master/programming_is...
Re: Programming is terrible – Lessons learned from a life wasted (2013) [video]
#3This is one of the funniest tech-talks I've heard (the funniest is XOXO's lottery collective talk). Thanks OP.
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#4Watched this quite a while ago; good watch if you like this kind of humor.
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#5From the first 10 minutes this seems more like standup to me!
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#6I started watching it, and had to remember after 15 minutes to come back and up vote.
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#7He bashes the "myth of the 10x" engineer.
Clearly the idea of the 10xer has too big a place in the mythology of our industry. It's oddly masochistic and as far as I know it's unique to us. There are no doctors blogging about "10x doctors" for example.
Anybody who has watched N0tch code on Twitch knows that there are certainly people who are far more productive coders than the average engineer. I have no idea if he's coding 10x faster than I could but it's probably close. And my ego is... healthy sized. But it ignores the truth that few of us work as "programmers." A software engineer has many responsibilities and doing the other things well brings a force multiplier to your work.
I personally subscribe to the belief that we all have a superpower or two, and figuring them out and pressing their advantage is a strong catalyst to success. So figure out what you 10x at and be happy for it.
Re: Programming is terrible – Lessons learned from a life wasted (2013) [video]
#8He bashes the "myth of the 10x" engineer. Clearly the idea of the 10xer has too big a place in the mythology of our industry. It's oddly masochistic and as far as I know it's unique to us. There are no doctors blogging about "10x doctors" for example. Anybody who has watched N0tch code on Twitch knows that there are certainly people who are far more productive coders than the average engineer. I have no idea if he's…
> There are no doctors blogging about "10x doctors"
There are still 10x equivalents though. For instance, a PhD MD that chairs a department at a major hospital, publishes significant research, participates in NIH or similar organisations, and still sees patients is going to be a very different sort of professional than your local GP.
It's the notion that 10x applies only to NCLOC production that needs rethinking, so you're in the ballpark in that respect.
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#9He bashes the "myth of the 10x" engineer. Clearly the idea of the 10xer has too big a place in the mythology of our industry. It's oddly masochistic and as far as I know it's unique to us. There are no doctors blogging about "10x doctors" for example. Anybody who has watched N0tch code on Twitch knows that there are certainly people who are far more productive coders than the average engineer. I have no idea if he's…
It is hard to quantify programmer productivity objectively, but most of us know subjectively when we are productive and when we are not and the difference that can make. If at my baseline I am 1x, at my peak productivity I can easily see myself being at 5-15x. (How this works and how to induce this boost is a separate discussion). I believe others experience what I am talking about. From here it isn't a far leap to think that another developer may just work at that pace naturally all the time.
I think this is the basis for the 10x developer mythos. Whether there is a great variation or Notch just recorded himself on days when he felt really productive (or the fact of recording himself made him productive) remains debatable.
Then again, I have seen my share of the 1/10x programmers, so it is possible that it is all relative. In either case, like you said, programming a computer is only a part of the job for most people. Gathering requirements, building a product, selling it, supporting it, marketing, all factor in. Otherwise, you might say that all a car mechanic ever does is change the oil.
Re: Programming is terrible – Lessons learned from a life wasted (2013) [video]
#10He bashes the "myth of the 10x" engineer. Clearly the idea of the 10xer has too big a place in the mythology of our industry. It's oddly masochistic and as far as I know it's unique to us. There are no doctors blogging about "10x doctors" for example. Anybody who has watched N0tch code on Twitch knows that there are certainly people who are far more productive coders than the average engineer. I have no idea if he's…
We all have a super power or two (or none or, sometimes more than two ...).
Do you not think what you wrote is just liberal dogma? I think there probably are people with few things going for them. Possibly removed from you socially due to the various filters that act on our lives.