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by imaginenore 3522 days ago
There are only that many hours in a day. Doubling your skill doesn't double your speed.
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I don't even know what double skill means. What is a skill of 5 vs 10?

The point is as you get better, you can MORE THAN double your rate at solving problems. A junior programmer might spend a week writing a way to sort a list. A senior programmer might call Arrays.sort and be done in 30 seconds.

Doubling your skill (and experience) can quadruple your speed.