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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by cJ0th on Monday October 03, 2016 @12:48PM (#12629065)
I'd say ~ 5 Engineers working for ~ 3.5 months

(I calculated the geometric mean of the numbers both of you have given, in case you're wondering ;) )

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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by vidarh on Monday October 03, 2016 @01:43PM (#12629589)
Generallly my approach if engineers disagree significantly on a timeline is to multiply the worst case estimate by a large factor, on the assumption that odds are good it means neither one has a clue what the actual complexity is if they don't manage to get to rough agreement...
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