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Hard disagree, as we have plenty of counter-examples here: from John Skeet, to John Carmack, to Max Howell, to Vitalik Buterin.
by dvt 4y ago
Hard disagree, as we have plenty of counter-examples here: from John Skeet, to John Carmack, to Max Howell, to Vitalik Buterin.
- wvenable 4y agoJohn Carmack? He's got one answer on stack overflow, limited open source contributions, a few conference talks, no books, no papers. He's known for producing actual results and not for any of the things you ascribe as 10x required.
- dvt 4y ago> limited open source contributions Sure, if literally porting the entire X Windows System[1] to OSX is "limited." Or basically paving the way for Linux gaming/3D development because of his work on OpenGL. Let alone his entrepreneurial/seed efforts w.r.t. Oculus, etc. Also, he spoke at Facebook's 2021 Keynote. C'mon, man. [1] https://github.com/timon37/xwayland/blob/master/hw/xquartz/man/Xquartz.man#L142 https://github.com/timon37/xwayland/blob/master/hw/xquartz/m...
- wvenable 4y agoYou pick on the one thing that dilutes your point. Carmack is known and famous for developing software -- not for dicking around on Stack Overflow, etc. He was famous long before he ever gave a talk -- and initially he was terrible at talks -- but he was always a 10x developer. I've worked with some amazing developers who've created unbelievable products that have never written a book, a paper, given a talk, or done a conference. They are probably the silent majority of 10x developers.