3 ms·

I've always understood it as an approximate order of magnitude.

• marcosdumay 10y ago
  An order of magnitude of what?
  • Nomentatus 10y ago
    See other replies vs measurement - and remember all the large software projects that never get deployed, becoming outright failures. Can you really conclude that they were problems nobody on earth could have solved?
    • marcosdumay 10y ago
      I don't disagree you will see orders of magnitude differences between people by some measurement. The problem is that nobody defending it is specifying what measurement will yeld those orders of magnitude difference, and what is its relevance. Claiming a difference without telling in what dimension is an empty claim, and that is exactly the problem with the 10x developer idea. (By the way, yes, there are plenty of problems nobody on Earth could ever solve. That doesn't follow from the fact that easier projects fail, but it's not false either.)
      • Nomentatus 10y ago
        There isn't merely one vector in which superior programmers are superior, there are many; see the Feynman example. Your search for simplicity is misplaced, I believe. Nobody's said there aren't unsolvable problems, the question was whether nearly every massive failed software project (and they're common) represented such a thing - obviously no.