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Collaboration overhead. If you replace 10 average programmers with 1 good programmer he doesn't need 10x productivity to match the combined productivity of 10 p
by Paul_S 13y ago
Collaboration overhead. If you replace 10 average programmers with 1 good programmer he doesn't need 10x productivity to match the combined productivity of 10 programmers (which is not a sum). On top of that, programming productivity is also a qualitative measure that goes beyond feature X working correctly. One person can code it in such a way that every time it needs changing it's easy to work with - thus saves uncountable hours in the future.
Not all men are created equal - I don't see why anyone would rail against that. Some people are stronger than you, some people are better coders than you - it's OK. Compare yourself with last year's you instead.
- forgottenpaswrd 13y ago"Some people are stronger than you, some people are better coders than you - it's OK. " What some people fail to get is that coders have over human powers. A strong person can't surpass human limits. He can't lift a car with his hands. But a person with a machine can. You can't short all the words in a book as a person, but a machine can in less than a tenth of a second.
- friendstock 13y agoTypo. Should be: You can't SORT all the words...
- camperman 13y agoMaybe he really meant to reply to the Goldman Sachs comment :)
- friendstock 13y ago:)