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Re:The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect by JustSomeNobody on Sunday September 17, 2017 @04:19PM (#15271491)
Money has little to do with it. You can only add so many engineers to a project. Therefore, some things just take time.
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Re:The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect by matude on Sunday September 17, 2017 @04:35PM (#15271560)
Aka "9 women won't give birth to a child in 1 month". An example often used to describe how adding more developers doesn't necessarily solve an issue quicker.
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Re:The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect by waynecochran on Sunday September 17, 2017 @08:09PM (#15272446)
"What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months." - Fred Brooks
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Re:The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect by gumby on Sunday September 17, 2017 @06:12PM (#15271978)
Credit for this goes to Fred Brooks, and appears in his famous book "The Mythical Man-Month"
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Re:The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect by JustSomeNobody on Sunday September 17, 2017 @08:24PM (#15272500)
Yes it does. I could not find my copy to find the quote I wanted to use so I used my own (not quite as effective) words.
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Re:The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect by gumby on Sunday September 17, 2017 @08:58PM (#15272633)
Didn't mean to imply you'd done something wrong, just added to your comment.
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