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attractivechaosyesterday at 9:59 PM1 replyview on HN

You can call 1000 averaged programmers and see if they can write MicroQuickJS using the same amount of time, or call one averaged programmer and see if he/she can write MicroQuickJS to the same quality in his/her life time. 10X, 100X or 1000X measures the productivity of us mortals, not someone like Fabrice Bellard.


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thechaoyesterday at 10:37 PM

If you're in a room with 100 physicists and Feynman, the accumulated wisdom of Feynman is your best bet.