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Re:You've only added two lines – why did that take two days? by satyrnein on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @08:03PM (#23839658)
I find it useful to tell people around how many engineers that company has. They won't understand why, but they may understand that they don't understand.

I also point out when a requested feature actually exists as a whole company.

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Re:You've only added two lines – why did that take two days? by deergomoo on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:32AM (#23843748)
I've started doing this too. The director of the company I work at is non-technical and will semi-regularly come to us expecting that we can build a competitor to Product XYZ in 6 months.

Pointing out that Product XYZ has 3000 employees and has been carving out a niche since 1995, while there are six of us with no knowledge of that market, is usually the only thing that gets him to accept that just because he understands what something does, it doesn't mean he understands what it takes to build it.

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Re:You've only added two lines – why did that take two days? by sincerely on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @02:43AM (#23842060)
On the other hand, this is my profession and I still have no idea why Twitter has so many engineers.
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Re:You've only added two lines – why did that take two days? by Piskvorrr on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:24AM (#23842266)
Ah, the eternal temptation: "but that's Easy! I can tackle this single-handed! produces a minimal, text-only prototype which scales enough for a couple thousand users"
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Re:You've only added two lines – why did that take two days? by lukeramsden on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:58AM (#23842465)
Scaling for infinite users as a solo developer is easy, just go Serverless!

Just make sure you have infinite money first.

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Re:You've only added two lines – why did that take two days? by bob33212 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:11AM (#23843236)
What do you mean 1 part time IT guy can't run our entire SaaS product? It is just a few clicks on AWS to get it up and running.
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