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Apply 100-hour rule to things you end up caring about enough that you want to be proficient in them.

You can avoid ads if you are technically proficient or know someone who is.

... I bet all the up-voters thought they were the "highly technically proficient people"!

I'm counting myself as proficient in Linux for many years and all i get is that it's some C code and apparently some 0day.

But in the right environment, the 10x engineer will do in weeks what would take proficient engineers months, or do in months what would take years.

You've got to understand that it is very hard for highly technically proficient people to be nice to everyone.

"It’s almost impossible to feel like part of a community if you’re not highly proficient in the language.

If you're a proficient git cli user, and you like it that way, then you're probably best off sticking with what you've got. Maybe explore some of the more traditional Git GUI clients like GitK or GitX, but keep in mind, that's not what this is.

I gave them a year of very hard work to the point that I feel I was proficient enough that I could talk development with people 3-4 years my senior and stay on level.

In that remote, dust-covered town in Maharashtra, Motewar and his colleagues had become among the most proficient ulcer surgeons in the world.

Often, you'll have people in a bio lab who are very proficient in their area of biological expertise, but who would be solving the wrong problem by spending 2 years trying to become C++ hackers.

M would be near the bottom of a special operations pyramid, meaning he's a highly proficient infantryman, probably supporting a higher unit.

I now consider myself a proficient user of vim, but that would never have happened without the thousands of sequential js pressed before I discovered text objects out of a hunch that "dang it, this is slow and silly.

Also, much like legal contracts can still trick the literate, these installers can trick even technically proficient users who weren't expecting to suddenly have to engage in a battle of wits with their computer.

I'm a very proficient computer user--the same gap between supertechnical and nontechnical users exists in the blind community, perhaps even magnified by other aspects such as secondary disabilities in a good chunk of the blind population.

If we combine your rules of thumb with the original essay and the 10,000 hour rule, we get a rough order-of-magnitude scale of work and levels of ability: * 10 hours: familiar\n * 100 hours: proficient\n * 1000 hours: good\n * 10000 hours: expert\n\nNot perfect, of course, but it's sort of intriguing in its simplicity.