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Interviews with 100x More Productive Programmers

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Re: Interviews with 100x More Productive Programmers

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Post by ztjio »

johansch wrote: post #9
shortstuffsushi wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was coming to the comments in search of what 100x meant -- how it was measured and compared. If someone is 100x more productive, they ought to be able to build systems in days or weeks instead of years, right? Kind of joking, but mostly poking fun at what seem like silly numbers.

I guess the 100x means that they are using LISP? Or maybe the other way around? Not sure. Meanwhile we are told that HN has excellent protection against upvoting rings. How the heck does this reach the front page in an organic way?

Slow news day, apparently.

Re: Interviews with 100x More Productive Programmers

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Post by dtornabene »

svachalek wrote: post #5

Wow... not just 10X programmers, but 100X, and the only evidence seems to be a firm assertion at the start of the book.

Are you aware of who any of the people are? Do you know anything about them? Seems like that would be relevant to your sneering comment there....

Re: Interviews with 100x More Productive Programmers

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Post by dang »

johansch wrote: post #9
shortstuffsushi wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was coming to the comments in search of what 100x meant -- how it was measured and compared. If someone is 100x more productive, they ought to be able to build systems in days or weeks instead of years, right? Kind of joking, but mostly poking fun at what seem like silly numbers.

I guess the 100x means that they are using LISP? Or maybe the other way around? Not sure. Meanwhile we are told that HN has excellent protection against upvoting rings. How the heck does this reach the front page in an organic way?

From the data it looks to me like established community members were interested in the topic. Perhaps they didn't look at the article, perhaps they noticed something about it that you didn't, and/or perhaps they're familiar with gnocchi's fine submission history.

Re: Interviews with 100x More Productive Programmers

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Post by synicalx »

dtornabene wrote: post #12
svachalek wrote: post #5

Wow... not just 10X programmers, but 100X, and the only evidence seems to be a firm assertion at the start of the book.

Are you aware of who any of the people are? Do you know anything about them? Seems like that would be relevant to your sneering comment there....

To be fair, 100x does sound a little ridiculous. It's like calling someone "Lisp Jesus".

I'd go one step further and say this little trend of quantifying how amazing people are by representing them as a multiple of how many plebs they're worth is pretty stupid as well.

Re: Interviews with 100x More Productive Programmers

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Post by vorotato »

shortstuffsushi wrote: post #8
svachalek wrote: post #5

Wow... not just 10X programmers, but 100X, and the only evidence seems to be a firm assertion at the start of the book.

I was coming to the comments in search of what 100x meant -- how it was measured and compared. If someone is 100x more productive, they ought to be able to build systems in days or weeks instead of years, right? Kind of joking, but mostly poking fun at what seem like silly numbers.

He can make in a year what takes 10 devs 10 years, yeah seems a bit silly.

Re: Interviews with 100x More Productive Programmers

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Post by gmiller123456 »

gnocchi wrote: post #17

This link didn't generate the interest I thought it would get. A lot of interesting people are interviewed in this ebook like Peter Seibel.

An accurate title would help. These interviews seem to be more about Lisp evangelism than why/how/if these people actually are more productive.
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