productiveness

I put a lot of the productiveness down to other factors at work. I'll see if I feel more productive next time she is at a conference and I get the chance to sleep more.

How is that a sign of productiveness? If anything this is an argument for working remotely.

I'm really getting high productiveness in those languages when developing web apllications. Grails for web stuffs and Scala for non web.

But waiting for some of these animations just hurts my productiveness and I've seen other people share my dismay. When changes like this hurt the people who know how to use their browser and want to simply get things done, it's saddening.

Your "productiveness" is more than simply the sum of the code that you produce. Moreover you're missing all those 'interesting little problems' that turn up, that you would know the answer to, if anyone only thought to ask you.

But I also agree not caring too much about it improves productiveness. Most applications really don't need to worry about performance in such depth.

What is team productivity other than the aggregate of individual productiveness? You could argue that open floor plans help bring the weakest programmers up a bit, but at the cost of bringing down your strong programmers down.

I've read tens of motivation/productiveness/get-stuff-done articles whereas what I needed was taking a proper holiday and rethinking my goals]

I've been working independently for some time now and I've noticed exactly the same thing - productiveness is significantly better when working less. However, I do handle many projects at the same time, but for each project I only hand the time when I've thought out what I'm going to build and how.

Learning, wearing 10 hats, broad range of knowledge from tech, design, hiring, firing, hyper productiveness, fun all the way up to optimized way of buying coffee. A startup experience will definetly accelerator your career.

Both packages are powerful, both packages have many features, both packages require time to acquire fluency and productiveness. Experience suggests that people will pick one and stick with it, making it impossible to measure the difference in productivity.

One thing that I always find very unsettling when reading things like that: how Germany is somehow always an epitome of efficiency and productiveness. I am working here and I absolutely do NOT perceive it like that and friends who are also working here confirmed that impression.

Finally, though I'm at best a mediocre, self-taught programmer, his sheer creativity and productiveness over the years has inspired me to create and produce in my own turn. I have never met or even corresponded with him, but I owe him a large debt of gratitude for helping to shape the programmer I have become.

And we have a culture that supports reason, productiveness, and life in general. Of course there are lots of exceptions to that, like protracted and pointless wars in the Middle East, but those are not fundamental artifacts of the conception of America; they are side-effects of bad culture today.

Honestly I don't see the productiveness of pushing your viewpoint when not asked or at least tangentially referenced. However, "Ready to Improve Everything" is a valid quality but is essentially an extension of point 1.

My strong suspicion is that there is much more likely to be a large variance in the productivity of programmers than in the productiveness of a particular language or way of programming.

I blame the counter-productiveness of turning things into an assembly-line activity. Consultants have been slingin' recipes for improved productivity out of managed, controlled, incentivized systems for a long, long time and the disaster has only grown larger.

There's also Ayn Rand's money speech, where Francisco d'Anconia says, "And when men live by trade -- with reason, not force, as their final arbiter–it is the best product that wins, the best performance, the man of best judgment and highest ability–and the degree of a man’s productiveness is the degree of his reward. This is the code of existence whose tool and symbol is money.

In other words, we can forget about monetary policy in our analysis and compare the relative health of other economies in the Eurozone based on their governments' fiscal policies and fundamental economic productiveness. Greece, Spain, and Portugal fail the test.

Edit: I just can't get over the tone of your post, especially given that despite my implication of productiveness and keyboard, you gave an example that explicitly and obviously only requires a stylus.

To return to your example of Excel vs DNF, consider the following from Capital: "The value of a commodity, therefore, varies directly as the quantity, and inversely as the productiveness, of the labor incorporated in it." While spreadsheet programs and first person shooters are different commodities, I think we can all agree that DNF did not receive the most productive labor!

Now take into account that the administrative team have been told that one if their main objectives is not to be "classical" bossy managers, but to be the main conduit of incentives and communication between the company and it's employees to ensure the productiveness and happiness of the cogs that move the company forward. This is not about reprimanding a manager because he did not turn a report on time - which by the way should be handled by asking the reason and though process of the manager's decision to use time for something else he deems more important.