[Beowulf] First 96-Node Transmeta Desktop Cluster Ships

Andrew Piskorski atp at piskorski.com
Thu May 5 07:07:16 PDT 2005


On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 06:57:40AM -0700, Jim Lux wrote:

> >   http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html
> >
> Paul cites the old 10:1 productivity canard (old and canard may be
> redundant) from Brooks.  The actual study back in the 60s was very contrived

Interesting.  Shame on him then for not properly digging into the
original sources before writing his essay.  Are there *NO* good
scientific studies of programmer productivity?

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