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But they use it in all the sci-fi movies -- it has to be more secure!!!
Marc
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The million-dollar question about the level of productivity in software development teams is the following: How does their productivity scale with the team size? "Nine women can't make a baby in one month"
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Any big team is going to be slowed down by having to coordinate almost everything. I think on small teams there can be improved productivity if they team members are highly skilled is specific areas, and their skills complement each other. I have definitely seen productivity go down on a lot because of other developers. I worked with a developer that had a tendency to much with my WPF code without telling me, and he was not a front end developer. Was working with Seapine Software's SCS, and it is pretty bad. He insisted on working directly under the integration branch while everyone else was working in the same feature branch. I managed to overwrite his changes and he insisted I back out. That does not work too well with Seapine since it does not handle deleted or added files well. I lost like 5 days, and his changes were minor in the project I was working in. This was the primary branch I was working. Did not have this problem with any of the other developers.
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Actually these days developers scale reasonably* well - once we've got the common architecture, tools and source control issues worked out.
Unfortunately the ambition of the project owner seems to scale exponentially - i.e. everyone seems to think "It should be like Excel but with these 18 additional functions" is somehow sensible.
(* Say 0.3N?)
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haha agree  My Associate manager at Accenture alway told me that
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To be fair, I believe credit is due to Fred Brooks: Brooks’ law - Wikipedia[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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thank you, for point it out
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I think every project has an optimal size. A big team has a lot of man power, but coordination, interfaces and "ramp up" time is getting bigger and bigger. Often occurs the problem one specialist is waiting on other results. (I am often waiting on our fancy design team)
The "smallest team" is one person: Knows all about the project but can only do one job at a time.
The optimal size comes from how much work can get done in paralell. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Three to five.
Almost any large project can be broken down to discrete projects of 3-5 engineers. (When you add in testers, documentation and perhaps a build-engineer and manager you get about 8-10 people, which is about the size of a military squad/section.)
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Researchers have devised a new attack that can decrypt secret session cookies from about 1 percent of the Internet's HTTPS traffic and could affect about 600 of the Internet's most visited sites, including nasdaq.com, walmart.com, match.com, and ebay.in. "It works in their laboratory". The new security model.
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In a world that's growing ever more reliant on apps, the rapid pace at which they're being developed and deployed is causing significant problems with security, according to a new report. The latest study from the journal, "Duh!"
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Gee, who'd'a thunk it?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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The big question is whether Proxima b has an atmosphere or is a cold, dead world. I think I played that game a while back
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I played a couple of gigs there.
This space for rent
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Agency's CIO holds off signing the "authority to operate" for systems and tools. So, they're not rocket scientists?
I'll get my coat.
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A teen hospitalized in Florida has beaten the odds against a brain-eating amoeba.
Science: It's Awesome.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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And he is now a computer programmer! 
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He's a teenager, and from Florida. The amoeba probably starved to death. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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As part of our Delphi Boot Camp event we've made the Starter Edition of Delphi available at 100% off. For those of you quick at math that makes it free for a limited time. "I've heard of you. I heard you were dead!"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I heard you were dead!"
Borland programmers, when they die, go to Pythia[^] to code happily ever after in Turbo Pascal.
Not a bad way to go, in my opinion. I assume VB is in one of Dante's levels of hell.
Marc
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I assume you meant to link to Pythia[^] not the Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia front page[^] 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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for cross-platform Native App Development with flexible Cloud services and broad IoT connectivity
Just look at the buzzwords. It's aimed squarely at attracting PHBs, who would then push it onto their minions to write cross-platform-native-cloud-flexible-IOT-app thing with Delphi. 
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Still overpriced though.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I cut my teeth on this language. Version 6. I actually think the language is very good, and was way ahead of its time 15-20 years ago. IMHO, Anders Hejlsberg is a genius with languages and it shows in C# today.
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Breakthrough Starshot is one of the more exciting scientific ideas that has popped up in the past decade, with its promise to deliver hardware to the nearest star in time for many people currently alive to see it. How bad can it be? The Enterprise does it all the time.
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