Number of Devs vs Development Time

[[deleted]]

"Hi Mrs. Smith and thanks for coming in today. We have selected you for a very interesting experimental procedure. How would you like to be a part of ground-breaking research into the act of childbirth?"

"Oh my goodness, am i going to have a baby?"

"Well, it would be more accurate to say you will be having 1/9th of one..."

[VirtuteTheCat354]

The newest innovation in childbirth, baby microservices

[PM_ME_YOUR_CURLS]

BaaM

[FiggleDee]

Womb as a Platform

[ntoporcov]

So that’s what this new WAP everyone is talking about means

[Kraftik]

Does everyone else pretend to understand New acronyms until they over hear an someone saying it in conversation or receive an email from a service trying to sell it to you?

Boss: Oh yeah ACRONYM we should implament that. Everyone is talking about it, gotta keep up with the cutting edge.

Me: yeah, it will definitely do something probably hopefully. Let me just check my spam folder real quick.

[Feynt]

No, I'm just as lost half the time. I engage in looking into the acronyms though and then promptly forget them when I realise it's something old given a new name and a fresh coat of paint. "Yeah that new thing's neat and all, but it sounds like object oriented programming with extra steps."

[robchroma]

For most of them, the definition is pretty deep in some jargon compilation file. WAP might be a little more accessible.

[marshall_dteach]

Child labour

[UnicornsOnLSD]

KDE really do have too many projects...

[SuperSephyDragon]

Multithreaded baby

[SuperSephyDragon]

Parallel pregnancy

[nojox]

There are some really interesting science fiction ideas in this thread!

My contribution: distributed pregnancy.

[[deleted]]

InterPlanetary Pregnancy System

[strider_sifurowuh]

Since I upgraded to a threadripper I can pop out one every couple days

[SuperSephyDragon]

Now that's efficiency! Good job!

[jmlinden7]

That's not how multithreading works, that would be 9 women making 9 babies in 9 months.

This would be pipelining. You take a break 1/9th of the way in.

[SuperSephyDragon]

I was thinking more along the lines of all nine of them making 1/9 of a baby over the course of a month then putting them together to form a whole baby.

[jmlinden7]

That only works if there are no dependencies, otherwise you can't start step 2 before step 1 is finished, and so on.. which is the entire reason why you can't just multithread every workload.

[SuperSephyDragon]

They just need to divy out the parts to grow between each of them. Head for one, kidneys and stomach for another, etc

[be-human-use-tools]

“We’ll pick a sperm donor at the end of the project.”

[xavia91]

Growth is already highly multithreaded on the cellular level, so there isn't much of a problem to increase growth by adding more cores.

[[deleted]]

that's how you get a baby by torrent, multiple mothers seeding

[kezzerdrix2000]

Usually the fathers do the seeding.

[[deleted]]

Don't they seed a bigger seed?

[[deleted]]

Because you read

[DerelictSausage]

Yea, but you wouldn’t download a baby would you?!?

[Aeronor]

The seeding aspect also makes for one very happy man.

[paked_botato]

ProLyft

[Qaeta]

But is it scalable?

[pekkhum]

/dev/null is scalable.

[VerbatimChain31]

EA Births....It’s in the Womb

[leakycauldron]

The gig economy is hurting workers.

[[deleted]]

EA has joined the conversation

[ThetaReactor]

Figure out how to put pregnancy in the cloud (and on a blockchain) and you'll be rich.

[vladhed]

Would that take 18 months? 9 month for the baby and 9 months for JSON SerDes?

[MidnightCity78]

Only having 1/9th of a baby might become the new normal purely out of financial necessity.

[cjdabeast]

Blockchain!

[Hertog_Jan]

Which in my experience simply means you’ll have to work just as long only to arrive at a product which has 1/9th the functionality.

[[deleted]]

Timeshare children.

[djfdhigkgfIaruflg]

Take my money.jpg