Production speed is severely degraded if one works with half time people,
who have other obligations as well. This is at least a factor four; probably
it is worse. The people themselves lose time and energy switching over, the
group as a whole loses decision speed as discussions, when needed, have
often to be postponed until all people concerned are available.
-- Dijkstra (EWD 196)
Related:
brute force adj.
Describes a primitive programming style
one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing
power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the
problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive
methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....