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Original Twitter thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/skirani/status/1149302828420067328 https://mobile.twitter.com/skirani/status/114930282842006732... The guy

Original Twitter thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/skirani/status/1149302828420067328 https://mobile.twitter.com/skirani/status/114930282842006732... The guy got lit by Twitter crowd for claiming that 10X devs exists, are introvert and often lacks deep empathy.

majos 7y ago
His #3 way to spot a 10x engineer is that their "laptop screen background color is typically black".
- sytelus 7y ago
  This might be stab at people who use certain IDEs. Historically many IDEs were said to be designed for “morts” (aka enterprise developers on Windows) and “real” programmers supposed to be using heavily customized Vim/Emacs on Unix. Tools like Visual Studio, Delphi, IntelliJ etc had white default backgrounds which arguably strained your eyes if you worked long hours. In old days, black themed tools is what kool kids did at funky startups and white skinned tools is what tie wearing programmers did at insurance companies (this is obviously not universally true, but I think that was the perception). For many years, most of these IDEs now have black themes and VS even now has it as default I think since 2015. Like all animals, we collect data (aka set of anecdotes) and build statistical model of word around us. Sometimes these models are hopelessly narrow, have too many false predictions and very quickly gets outdated.
finnthehuman 7y ago
>often lacks deep empathy Interesting claim. I'd wonder if this is based on measuring their ability at the sensing part of empathy, or the performative part. I'd wager the later, because they're already using "introvert" to mean "low amount of socialization in the context of work." I enjoy socializing at work way more than I enjoy sitting at desk staring at a computer all day -- especially if I'm banging my head against a wall on an unrewarding task -- but that's not what they pay us for. So the claim "10X devs exists, are introvert and often lacks deep empathy" just sounds like valley-speak for "10x devs exist, and are good at focusing on their job while at work."

majos 7y ago

His #3 way to spot a 10x engineer is that their "laptop screen background color is typically black".

sytelus 7y ago
This might be stab at people who use certain IDEs. Historically many IDEs were said to be designed for “morts” (aka enterprise developers on Windows) and “real” programmers supposed to be using heavily customized Vim/Emacs on Unix. Tools like Visual Studio, Delphi, IntelliJ etc had white default backgrounds which arguably strained your eyes if you worked long hours. In old days, black themed tools is what kool kids did at funky startups and white skinned tools is what tie wearing programmers did at insurance companies (this is obviously not universally true, but I think that was the perception). For many years, most of these IDEs now have black themes and VS even now has it as default I think since 2015. Like all animals, we collect data (aka set of anecdotes) and build statistical model of word around us. Sometimes these models are hopelessly narrow, have too many false predictions and very quickly gets outdated.

finnthehuman 7y ago

>often lacks deep empathy Interesting claim. I'd wonder if this is based on measuring their ability at the sensing part of empathy, or the performative part. I'd wager the later, because they're already using "introvert" to mean "low amount of socialization in the context of work." I enjoy socializing at work way more than I enjoy sitting at desk staring at a computer all day -- especially if I'm banging my head against a wall on an unrewarding task -- but that's not what they pay us for. So the claim "10X devs exists, are introvert and often lacks deep empathy" just sounds like valley-speak for "10x devs exist, and are good at focusing on their job while at work."