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Does this strategy work? I mean, has it worked before? Can you hire thousands of technical people, throw them at some hard problem and expect they will solve i
by narag 9y ago
Does this strategy work?
I mean, has it worked before? Can you hire thousands of technical people, throw them at some hard problem and expect they will solve it?
- BlackjackCF 9y agoI've always found that more people doesn't necessarily mean more/better output...
- mhb 9y agoManhattan Project, Apollo.
- narag 9y agoExactly the two ones that I had thought of but... there are big differences. The goals were well defined, the means were known and there was managers and planifications.
- pjungwir 9y agoThe Idea Factory is a history of Bell Labs about just that idea, starting with the first transcontinental telegraph message.
- nojvek 9y agoHaving worked at Microsoft I see how this usually plays out. Lots of teams and people added for the sake of having people. 9 women can't make a baby in a month. Microsoft has a ton of money in the bank and they need to spend it, make acquisitions and see where it sticks. Some of the best work at MS I have seen weirdly had been in small teams with razor focus. Typescript, Vscode.
- 201709User 9y agoYour last samples represent an overinvestment into a mid-term dead-end though (JS).