<story><title>Programming is terrible – Lessons learned from a life wasted (2013) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>encoderer</author><text>He bashes the &amp;quot;myth of the 10x&amp;quot; engineer.&lt;p&gt;Clearly the idea of the 10xer has too big a place in the mythology of our industry. It&amp;#x27;s oddly masochistic and as far as I know it&amp;#x27;s unique to us. There are no doctors blogging about &amp;quot;10x doctors&amp;quot; for example.&lt;p&gt;Anybody who has watched N0tch code on Twitch knows that there are certainly people who are far more productive coders than the average engineer. I have no idea if he&amp;#x27;s coding 10x faster than I could but it&amp;#x27;s probably close. And my ego is... healthy sized. But it ignores the truth that few of us work as &amp;quot;programmers.&amp;quot; A software engineer has many responsibilities and doing the other things well brings a force multiplier to your work.&lt;p&gt;I personally subscribe to the belief that we all have a superpower or two, and figuring them out and pressing their advantage is a strong catalyst to success. So figure out what you 10x at and be happy for it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Programming is terrible – Lessons learned from a life wasted (2013) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Aldo_MX</author><text>The slides for those who prefer to skim through them before deciding if watching a 1-hour conference or not:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/tef/emfcamp2012/raw/master/programming_is_terrible.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;tef&amp;#x2F;emfcamp2012&amp;#x2F;raw&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;programming_is...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>