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by bashauma 629 days ago
> Stop trying to hire 10X engineers. Befunge applications are built by true X² engineers.

Best sales slogan of the year.

3 comments

Don't hire 10x, hire x¹⁰, with superstringfuck - the only language with the dimensions to tackle the needs of today's fast moving businesses.
But what if my X is only ~1–2? Should I continue hiring the 10X engineers? Someone explain it to me in a PowerPoint.
I like how we haven't specified whether x is greater than or less than one.
I love that we complain about that before asking what we're measuring or whether higher or lower numbers are better.

If you are asking such questions you aren't who I'm talking to and you need to leave the room immediately.

It's kind of a joke / riffing. Collaboration/elaboration, not attack. The "like" wasn't sarcasm; it was observing additional possibilities for meaning -- meanings that actually worked kind of amusingly to me.