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His #3 way to spot a 10x engineer is that their "laptop screen background color is typically black".
by majos 7y ago
His #3 way to spot a 10x engineer is that their "laptop screen background color is typically black".
- sytelus 7y agoThis 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 Sometimes these models are hopelessly narrow, have too many false predictions and very quickly gets outdated.