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cozos
on Jan 21, 2020
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Tricks to start working despite not feeling like i...
Group B would be assigned to write 50 apps in this case. In your example 50000 LOC would be like making a really giant pot.
onion2k
on Jan 21, 2020
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In the pottery example Group A were marked by weight ("fifty pound of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on."). Making a single giant pot
could
get you an A if the lecturer wasn't pedantic about the meaning of "pots".
Drakar1903
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Well, if you're making "pots", you're not making "vases", "pans" or "thimbles". The experiment doesn't work if you don't set any acceptance criteria.
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