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Lol, HN, the place where people try to answer to an expression, a saying or an image by being technically correct. Your comment could be a line from Sheldon in

Lol, HN, the place where people try to answer to an expression, a saying or an image by being technically correct. Your comment could be a line from Sheldon in the Big Bang Theory :)

Chris2048 10y ago
> the place where people try to answer to an expression burden is on the you to show that "10x programmer" is "an expression, a saying or an image". Plenty people consider the term to be literal, and argue as such all over HN.
- sametmax 10y ago
  I can do it too, look: burden is on the you to show that "10x programmer" is not "an expression, a saying or an image". Plenty people consider the term to be not literal, and argue as such all over HN.
  - bsilvereagle 10y ago
    You may find one of the studies credited with creating the idea of the "10x programmer" interesting to skim: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/645438.pdf http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/645438.pdf
  - Chris2048 10y ago
    https://www.techopedia.com/definition/31673/10x-developer https://www.techopedia.com/definition/31673/10x-developer See top answer here: http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/179616/a-good-programmer-can-be-as-10x-times-more-productive-than-a-mediocre-one http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/17961... The "10 times" didn't come from nowhere, people who use the term to simply mean a great (and not literally "ten times productive") programmer ignore the origin of the term.
    - sametmax 10y ago
      Oh God you are taking this seriously ain't you ?
      - dang 10y ago
        You've crossed into incivility in this thread. We ban accounts that do that. Please don't do it again.
  - Chris2048 10y ago
    > Plenty people consider the term to be not literal, and argue as such all over HN. Can you give me examples, so I can tell them that they're wrong as well?
crazypyro 10y ago
Responding with civility to the pedantry is just a part of HN. I've found that being humble to comments like these, even if you disagree, is the simplest way to defuse the situation.
- Chris2048 10y ago
  Responding with civility to non-pedantry is also a part of HN; which is more relevant in this case, lest anyone mistake my post as pedantic.
dang 10y ago
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13753531 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13753531 and marked it off-topic.

Lol, HN, the place where people try to answer to an expression, a saying or an image by being technically correct. Your comment could be a line from Sheldon in the Big Bang Theory :)

Chris2048 10y ago

> the place where people try to answer to an expression burden is on the you to show that "10x programmer" is "an expression, a saying or an image". Plenty people consider the term to be literal, and argue as such all over HN.

sametmax 10y ago
I can do it too, look: burden is on the you to show that "10x programmer" is not "an expression, a saying or an image". Plenty people consider the term to be not literal, and argue as such all over HN.
- bsilvereagle 10y ago
  You may find one of the studies credited with creating the idea of the "10x programmer" interesting to skim: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/645438.pdf http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/645438.pdf
- Chris2048 10y ago
  https://www.techopedia.com/definition/31673/10x-developer https://www.techopedia.com/definition/31673/10x-developer See top answer here: http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/179616/a-good-programmer-can-be-as-10x-times-more-productive-than-a-mediocre-one http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/17961... The "10 times" didn't come from nowhere, people who use the term to simply mean a great (and not literally "ten times productive") programmer ignore the origin of the term.
  - sametmax 10y ago
    Oh God you are taking this seriously ain't you ?
    - dang 10y ago
      You've crossed into incivility in this thread. We ban accounts that do that. Please don't do it again.
- Chris2048 10y ago
  > Plenty people consider the term to be not literal, and argue as such all over HN. Can you give me examples, so I can tell them that they're wrong as well?

crazypyro 10y ago

Responding with civility to the pedantry is just a part of HN. I've found that being humble to comments like these, even if you disagree, is the simplest way to defuse the situation.

Chris2048 10y ago
Responding with civility to non-pedantry is also a part of HN; which is more relevant in this case, lest anyone mistake my post as pedantic.

dang 10y ago

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13753531 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13753531 and marked it off-topic.