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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by amelius on Monday October 03, 2016 @08:59AM (#12627086)
Well, with 2000 engineers I could do it in a weekend :)

Anyway, here's a related link: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-AirBnb-and-Uber-need-so-many-en...

And here another: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12597232

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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by betimsl on Monday October 03, 2016 @09:07AM (#12627147)
You couldn't.

No way you can delegate work to 2k engineers and tell them what to do for next 2 days. Physically impossible.

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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by philbarr on Monday October 03, 2016 @09:36AM (#12627326)
Not my problem - I'm their manager. If I have 2000 engineers I just make one of them Lead Dev and then shout at him when he hasn't been able to deliver after I gave him 1999 software engineers. What an idiot.
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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by Frenchgeek on Monday October 03, 2016 @09:48AM (#12627393)
So Dilbert got promoted then demoted...
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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by amelius on Monday October 03, 2016 @09:15AM (#12627198)
Yes, Amdahl's law.

I'd probably just use the 10 most productive engineers, and tell the others to prepare for testing :)

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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by betimsl on Monday October 03, 2016 @09:20AM (#12627219)
I don't want to sound bad, but again you couldn't do it.

Say you have 2k engineers for next two days. Where do you begin?

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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by triplesec on Monday October 03, 2016 @10:09AM (#12627518)
You are correct, but are taking these guys too seriously. They know about the mythical man month and are just riffing, for better or worse.
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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by davidy123 on Monday October 03, 2016 @09:47AM (#12627387)
Describe the app generally, and leave it to them to form their own teams and solutions. Hackthon style, and hackathons at least usually have functional prototypes by their end.
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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by madeofpalk on Monday October 03, 2016 @10:15AM (#12627556)
Nope. Nine women can't make a baby in one month.
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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by amelius on Monday October 03, 2016 @10:40AM (#12627717)
Just use one "10x woman".
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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by jcoffland on Monday October 03, 2016 @02:29PM (#12630028)
Unless you pipeline them.
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