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adamgordonbell on Jan 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The myth of the myth of the 10x programmer (2020)

I believe the term comes from a study done my Tom Demarco, and was about developer performance across companies, on an equal task, with a somewhat controlled level of experience.

It def wasn't about some guy on my team rocks, but about this company over here does better work. That meaning isn't really how its used now though.

The study was "Programmer Performance and the Effects of the Workplace"

Izkata on Jan 20, 2023 [–]

Buried in the comments here someone posted the quote it came from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34453110

It's older than the study you're referring to ( https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/319568.319651 )

adamgordonbell on Jan 21, 2023 | [–]

Neat.Thanks for tracking these down.

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