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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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