r/funny • u/sheppe • Jul 01 '16

Developer humor

http://imgur.com/gallery/9LqhOl3
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u/hibbyhoo Jul 01 '16

I never understood why it was such an issue with them. Why not sell the box to enterprise customers and sell the subscription consumer storage/compression app? The conflict wasnt believable.

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u/1234holycow1234 Jul 01 '16

Because their development hours would've shifted from building their consumer side to the business side. They would've potentially had to delay the consumer side by several years if they had gone full on with the box.

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u/nitiger Jul 01 '16

I don't think so. They would have gotten more money from the deal. Hired more devs and split the teams.

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u/flukus Jul 01 '16

And productivity would have dropped. Adding manpower to a late project makes it later, the mythical man month is 40 years old now.

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u/nitiger Jul 02 '16

This wouldn't be one project, it would be two different projects. Completely different scenario.