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by alnayyir 6292 days ago
>I am a 10x coder

Hubris makes me sad. :(

>we are faster

That's unnecessarily inclusive and doesn't convey anything of substance.

>If you refuse to acknowledge that your webapp needs an operating system, a webserver, a cache and a database to operate

>depriving yourself of acquiring the magic systems knowledge

I smell a proud C/C++ programmer.

waves ASM coder over here, we (??) asm coders can write parsing libraries that spank yours seven ways to Sunday.

Does it matter? No. That's not how you "get things done (TM)".
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moe 6292 days ago
Hubris makes me sad. :(

Sorry to hear that, I was merely trying to provide a frame of reference.

I smell a proud C/C++ programmer.

Way to read something into a post.

waves ASM coder over here, we (??) asm coders can write parsing libraries that spank yours seven ways to Sunday.

That's fine and may get you a nice job at a hardware company. I don't see how it's related, though.

Does it matter? No. That's not how you "get things done (TM)".

And where did I say anything to that tune?

The point I was trying to make is the opposite: As long as you consider yourself a programmer, or worse a programmer of a particular language, you're probably not a "10x coder" [who keeps coming up with these idiotic terms anyways]. It doesn't matter whether that language is C, asm, Java or Lisp.

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bestes 6292 days ago
I've worked with a 10x coder and he does everything moe mentioned above, even including hardware. He is disdainful of those who program, but can't maintain their own systems. One guy is not much of a sample, but many times I've seen him find solutions in hardware, OS settings, network configuration, etc. that you would never have found if you focused only on your application.
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alnayyir 6292 days ago
>I've seen him find solutions in hardware, OS settings, network configuration

I've done the same but I am not a 10x coder. I'm just a generalist on steroids who happens to take a fancy to asm, security, arch, and abstracted programming languages.

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habibur 6292 days ago
> who happens to take a fancy to asm, security, arch, and abstracted programming languages.

...that means you are a 10x coder but would not like to claim yourself though.

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alnayyir 6291 days ago
I'd never entertain the notion that I am equal to a great many of my programming fellows, I learn something new everyday from the people I talk to...let alone 10x better.

It's just absurd, I'm an over-diversified generalist, I'm better than no one at anything.

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