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"Mythical Man-Month" Supposedly Busted By MIT Startup

Posted by samzenpus on from the many-eyes-and-fingers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We all know about the Mythical Man-Month, the argument that adding more programmers to a software project just makes it later and later. A Linux startup out of MIT claims to have busted the myth, using an MIT holiday month to hire 20 college student interns to get all their work done and quadrupling its productivity."

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  1. Re:No Indians on their team. by Chelmet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That looks like a party just waiting to happen.

  2. Re:No Indians on their team. by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're right- I don't see anybody who's not there.

  3. Niice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is it bad that all I could think when reading the article and looking at the posted picture, was man I really wouldn't mind "writing some code" with the lady to the far left.

    1. Re:Niice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I have 23 code modules I'd like to share with her, heh heh heh

    2. Re:Niice by Miseph · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The brunette in the middle is kinda cute too, in an "officer, she told me she's 19, I swear!" kind of way.

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