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Sure, Ritchie's awesome. But I'm not sure why engineers slag other engineers so often. Most of the startups in Silicon Valley started as prototypes written by

Sure, Ritchie's awesome. But I'm not sure why engineers slag other engineers so often. Most of the startups in Silicon Valley started as prototypes written by one 10x guy. (For you HN pedants, that's called an "existence proof.") If you don't see 10x programmers after the startup phase, that's the fault of corporate mgmt. Tall poppy and all that.

ljw1001 7y ago
> If you don't see 10x programmers after the startup phase, that's the fault of corporate mgmt. Tall poppy and all that. Actually, it's because building a real product is 10x harder than building a prototype.