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> This is very similar to the idea that throwing more devs at a project will help it deliver more quickly. This is a nonsense ad absurdum argument. It's self-e
by teachingassist 6y ago
> This is very similar to the idea that throwing more devs at a project will help it deliver more quickly.
This is a nonsense ad absurdum argument. It's self-evidently true that more devs will, in general, deliver projects more quickly - especially considering that we are talking about a system, not a single project.
Otherwise, we could have One True Dev delivering all of the world's software. Do you think that is reasonable?
Political pressure won't necessarily make a difference, as you say, but sustained and genuine political pressure will almost certainly make a difference.
- giantg2 6y agoYou call out a supposed fallacy in my statement but not your own. Simply repeating an unsupported belief is not support for an argument - appeal to emotion by wishful thinking, ad nauseam. You might want to look up Brooks's Law.
- teachingassist 6y agoIf you're demanding sources but haven't provided any of your own, you're simply trolling. Look up Brooks's Law yourself. It begins with "under certain conditions", none of which apply here.
- giantg2 6y agoI'm not trolling. You could have redacted your unsupported comment, making this chain moot. And do you have any points for why the exceptions to those circumstances would apply here? Or are you just stating that as fact, like the rest of your argument? It seems like you are relying on the fallacy fallacy (yes that's a real thing) - don't bother proving your own opinion, just say that mine is wrong because you think I have a fallacy.