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Re:Short fat engineers are undervalued by bulek on Friday February 12, 2021 @10:29PM (#26121149)
>PM's are good at figuring out the theta, and Engineers are good at the r.

I'm only familar with the options definition of theta and the reproductive strategy of r. Could you expand? Something like, PM's are good at long term (e.g. our product needs this feature, then this feature) and Engineers are good at fine detail (e.g. the feature should work like this)?

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Re:Short fat engineers are undervalued by yellowcake0 on Friday February 12, 2021 @10:39PM (#26121194)
Theta is the angle, r is the radius.

Thus PMs are good at figuring out in what direction to concentrate their effort, and then the engineers make progress in that direction. That's how I interpreted it at least.

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Re:Short fat engineers are undervalued by bulek on Saturday February 13, 2021 @12:25AM (#26121628)
Aha, thank you! I understand that as similar to what I tried to articular.
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