Timeline for Has Stack Overflow been economically beneficial to programmer productivity?
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| May 12, 2015 at 19:20 | answer | added | snoram | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 12, 2015 at 15:56 | comment | added | user4239 | Productivity at the level of a sector or an enterprise is fine and often used. But the productivity of an individual worker ??? That does not make a lot of sense to me. | |
| May 12, 2015 at 13:21 | comment | added | FooBar | One straightforward definition for the productivity of any worker is the value of his output (his value added), as appreciated/evaluated by the firm. This includes all within-firm externalities such as peer effects. In proper notation, with $\mathcal L$ being the set of workers at that firm, the productivity of worker $i$ would be $F(\mathcal L) - F(\mathcal L_{-i})$ | |
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| May 12, 2015 at 12:45 | comment | added | user4239 | If it is as straightforward as you claim, how would you define the "productivity of a programmer"? | |
| May 12, 2015 at 12:35 | comment | added | FooBar | From the linked question: It isn't obvious how economists might measure value to an economy. It isn't obvious how computer scientists might measure productivity. Both value to an economy and productivities are variables that we have a pretty good grip on, I would disagree on both. | |
| May 12, 2015 at 12:29 | answer | added | FooBar | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 12, 2015 at 11:00 | comment | added | Luaan | Why do you think answering questions decreases productivity? Apart from outright obsessive checking of SO every five minutes, of course :) | |
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| May 12, 2015 at 10:32 | history | asked | Sklivvz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |