Wednesday, January 1
AlterSlash ~ the unofficial SlashDot digest
It took longer for the Ph.Ds to “boot up”, as it were, to become familiar with the development environment, to learn the finer points of C etc. But once that happened, they started outperforming the rest so much that it was not even funny. They delivered faster, their architectures were so much better designed, and their code had far fewer bugs.
Finally, when the product deadlines started slipping, the same Ph. Ds (whose component had less than 1% of all the filed bugs) were put to work to help the others pull their shit together