10x Paychecks for 10x Programmers

You most definitely have heard about 10x programmers. The gist of this folklore is that some of us coders are very effective (10 or even 100 times more so than others), while the rest are just ���normal.��� It is definitely not a myth though.

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Robert Glass in his Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts About Software Engineering (2001) essay said that ���good programmers are up to 30 times better than mediocre programmers, according to ���individual d...