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WAO: How do you measure Developers?

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How do you measure a developer? How do you know that they're 10x or a ninja or a unicorn?


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Matt Willtrout • • Edited

Use measuring tape. Quality is inversely proportional to proximity to π * B where B/π is the height of the ideal programmer.

  • measuring tape is how you measure people
  • everyone likes pie!
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Nathan Kallman •

In before someone mentions WTFPM

Comic: The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute; Good Code: WTF, WTF; Bad Code: WTF, WTF is this shit, WTF, dude WTF, WTF

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Patrick Tingen •

Quality is related to caffeine intake, so count nr of cups of coffee.
Black only of course. No suger.

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Nathan Kallman •

Oh no! But I don't like coffee... do you think my job is at risk?! /s

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Patrick Tingen •

Absolutely! Unless you can repair a stick printer

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GrahamTheDev •

I like to measure developers by their ability to fix a printer.

Everybody knows that if they have a developer in the family they must know how to fix a printer otherwise they must be a noob!

For some reason my family went paperless a long time ago....🤔

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Amin •

The less they are willing to be paid, the better.

If they can do the work of twelve people, they are also better.

10 years of experience for a 3 years technology? Automatically better.

Microsoft Docs as IDE? Boom: better.

Don't want to learn something new and better because lazy or opinionated? That's right you guessed it: #betterdev

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Michiel Hendriks •

Print out their code and put them next to it.

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Nathan Kallman •

Oooo, if we combine this measurement with @inhuofficial 's of fixing the printer first I think we might be getting somewhere!

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Grant Hair •

https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/g5e6sj6c94ncal0yfeli.png

The only true way to know a code master is by the amount of plaid on their plaid shirts

twitter.com/highcharts/status/8246...

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Ivy Puckett •

With the metric system.

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Nathan Kallman •

I much prefer to be measured in bald eagles per apple pies, thank you very much.

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Ivy Puckett •

At least it's not the imperial system 😆