Re: [NTLK] [OT] Newton sell off

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Mon Oct 06 2003 - 06:22:26 PDT


> I have to put the US in there because people don't typically
> know where Vermont is. I was stationed in Alabama and was
> questioned by police as to how I had joined the U.S. Air Force
> since I was from Vermont, which they thought was in Canada.

Ouch!

-Laurent.

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Brooks's Law prov.: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it
later" -- a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting
development work among N programmers is O(N) (that is, proportional to N),
but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and
then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of
N). The quote is from Fred Brooks, a manager of IBM's OS/360 project and
author of "The Mythical Man-Month" (Addison-Wesley, 1975, ISBN
0-201-00650-2), an excellent early book on software engineering.
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