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Re:We’ll Never Know Whether Monorepos Are Better by lloeki on Thursday June 29, 2017 @08:42AM (#14662751)
Where is your metric? By how much will you be declared more productive? Is it just time to achieve a result? Because that is obviously wrong. How are you accounting for quality, or even measuring that X? Do you account for readability? maintenance? documentation? factoring? over-engineering?

There are so many visible as well as hidden factors that attempting to measure any (let alone all) of that is a pipe dream.

Also, by writing the second one you are not accounting for second version effects since it is a reimplementation of something you know, and if someone else develops it for you then you just changed a major variable.

I get that you said "oversimplified", but this is just like saying "thought experiment", yet as soon as you confront that to the real world, it just doesn't realistically fly.

Re:We’ll Never Know Whether Monorepos Are Better by vmateixeira on Thursday June 29, 2017 @08:58AM (#14662877)
> Why is time for achieving a result a wrong metric?

We're paid per hour of work.

Also, on today's market, the first to release wins. I know there are some exceptions but whoever wins the market first has clear advantages.

So why is time not a good metric?

And I didn't account for second version effects, that was not my aim.