The 95%
In November 2007, Bruce Eckel gave a commencement address at Neumont College of Computer Science in Salt Lake City. He published it shortly after and titled it “The Mythical 5%.” It’s a good speech about what it takes to be a member of the top 5% of software engineers in the world who are 20x more productive than the other 95%. That is a pretty astonishing statistic. If it’s true then companies in the UK...