Measuring the Greatness of Programmers

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What about occasionally duplicating effort in order to run a test? It seems possible the information gleaned from the test could outweigh the cost of duplication of effort.

Well, Google CodeJam is about to start. That's a lot of duplication of effort, that should be worth it.

So how would we say that Paul is a better programmer than John?

Too easy.

If I had a fixed priced project that had to get done ASAP, I was responsible for all maintenance out of pocket, and I could have one person work with me, whom would I pick?

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