programmer on a roll

Submitted by manolism on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 08:40.

A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more.

Το είπε...: Peter Seebach

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