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Does 100x, mean full time? Khan Academy has various full-time engineers.

• qq66 15y ago
  The term "10x" engineer refers to engineers who are 10 times as productive as the average engineer, largely because they create better abstractions, solve metaproblems, and make maintainable code (they generally can't type 10x as fast). Resig is at least 100x in this department but if you really tally up the impact of JQuery etc. it's probably even more than that. Then there are the (infinity)x guys like Torvalds.
• mnutt 15y ago
  I assume that is referring to Paul Graham's assertion that a good developer isn't just a little better than an average developer, but is instead orders of magnitude better.
  • asg 15y ago
    This assertion (among many other gems) was originally stated in the Mythical Man Month, by Fred Brooks, published in 1975.