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Re:Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Elec... by ratww on Saturday June 26, 2021 @12:07PM (#27643038)
> And it maddens me that their whole team, including ops and backend is like 50 people.

But that's how they get so much accomplished. Fred Brooks was correct in 1975 and is still right in 2021. Throwing headcount at a problem only delays it.

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Re:Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Elec... by marcosdumay on Saturday June 26, 2021 @01:43PM (#27644057)
> and is still right in 2021

That's a huge understatement. When development tools improve and people get more productive, that observation gets more and more correct.

Thus, he is much more correct now than he was in 1975. And he was pretty much right by that time.

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