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* [[Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup]]: The file contains an entry which states that "Adding manpower to a late project makes it later", with mathematical justification; dividing a task among N people gets the work done in ''O''(N) time, but actually coordinating that work and getting it merged back into a completed project takes ''O''(N^2) because of duplication, intercommunication problems (two people on a project have one line of communication (A<->B); four people have six), and general laziness (if there's a hundred people on a task, there will be a few who think they don't need to pull their weight). |
* [[Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup]]: The file contains an entry which states that "Adding manpower to a late project makes it later", with mathematical justification; dividing a task among N people gets the work done in ''O''(N) time, but actually coordinating that work and getting it merged back into a completed project takes ''O''(N^2) because of duplication, intercommunication problems (two people on a project have one line of communication (A<->B); four people have six), and general laziness (if there's a hundred people on a task, there will be a few who think they don't need to pull their weight). |
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* [[Words Do Not Make the Magic]]: See the [[Ice Cream Koan]] quoted above. |
* [[Words Do Not Make the Magic]]: See the [[Ice Cream Koan]] quoted above. |
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* [[Yiddish as a Second Language]]: Hacker parlance is absolutely ''full'' of Yiddish -- chainik (despite the Jargon File identifying it as Russian), DRECNET, farkled, foo, glitch and kludge, just to name a few. |
* [[Yiddish as a Second Language]]: Hacker parlance is absolutely ''full'' of Yiddish and Yiddish-derived words -- chainik (despite the Jargon File identifying it as Russian), DRECNET, farkled, foo, glitch and kludge, just to name a few. |
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