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jldugger
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Programming is terrible – Lessons learned from a l...
> He was online almost every hour of the week/day and he was always working.
It's a lot easier to be a "10x engineer" when you work 2x-3x the hours everyone else.
frozenport
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Not many people can do that.
balls187
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Not many people
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kranner
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People can have other obligations (to family, to their own health, etc.) that preclude the choice.
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Not many people can work that much in raw hours,
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be as productive for each of those hours as someone who works normally are during each business hour.
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Is it really? I would go net negative productivity at 2x everyone else's hours.
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It's a lot easier to be a "10x engineer" when you work 2x-3x the hours everyone else.