I’ve heard the joke around 9 women making a baby in a month by PM standards
Sign a 5-year contract for one baby a month, outsource the first 8 deliverables at a loss while using the time to ramp up production staggered such that it produces a baby on a monthly basis. /s
Wasn’t that in the Mythical Man Month itself?
Yes, but only some PMs will get what that means. Metaphors are easier to explain than “go read this book”
Give the PM a bottle of grape juice. Say it’s wine on a rushed schedule.
Give them a gallon of grape juice and tell them it’s a glass of sprint wine.
Once you have 9 cells towards an embryo the rest of the job is embarrassingly parallel
Nitpicky an not part of the point, but 900 degrees fareheit isn’t 3 times 300.
Absolute zero is negative 459.67 fareheit, so the absolute temps in Rankine (imperial equivalent to Kelvin) are 759.67 and 1359.67, so it’s about 1.8 times as hot.
So the problem is you need to cook the turkey at 1820 degrees.
900F isn’t 3×300F because 0F isn’t absolute zero.
3 × 300F =3 × (422K) =(1266K) =1819F
This is roughly the temperature of lava. So just mere seconds should be enough to get the chicken tasty as hell.
900F isn’t 3x300F or 1819F because the free convection heat transfer coefficient of air increases with temperature so the surface temperature of the chicken (and the temperature of the air touching the chicken) will be lower than 3x its value at 300F. If you want the chicken meat to experience a surface temperature that is 3x higher than 300F you need to up the heat a bit more.
Assuming the affects from Prandtl numbers are insignificant, and that a chicken is basically a sphere, the heat transfer coefficient should be roughly proportional to the fourth root of the Grashof number which is (roughly) linear with temperature difference (we’re neglecting viscosity changes because I’m tired, though those are probably significant)
Math I probably didn’t do right says that’s about 1.69x higher of a heat transfer coefficient
1.69x higher convection means 1.69x lower thermal resistance means we need roughly 1.69x as much temperature difference, so say the chicken is initially at 40F (refrigerator temp) that gives us 1.69x(1819-40)+40= 3,046.51°F
That’s pretty close to the temperature at which lead boils.
Unfortunately one shouldn’t cook around vaporized or superheated lead due to the likelyhood of it getting into the food, what a shame.
This person maths
I would say trying to cook 3x faster isnt a surface temp 3x higher, but the rate of heat transfer is 3x faster. Because then your laat step is backwards.
Q = h a dT
If you just calculated H goes up 1.69x, then dT doesnt need to go up MORE, it needs to go up LESS. A higher HTC increases the rate of heat transfer. Which… now you need to recalc your free conv HTC because temp changed. But if it didnt…
3Q = 1.69h a 1.78DT
Old DT was 260, now its 463, which is an ovev temp of 503F
Edit: this is a transient problem we’re trying to reduce to a steady state calculation with pretty poorly defined requirements. Sounds like a typical day at work for me lol
a chicken is basically a sphere
Wouldn’t this be easier done in vacuum with thermal radiation?
A non-rotating spherical chicken in vacuum might simplify the calculations, but I prefer to get the rotisserie effect.
One can argue that 3 developers is also not the same as one developer multiplied by three, I’m not sure if incorrect use of temperature improves the joke or spoils it
Recipe said low and slow, 165 for 12 hours, but I wanted it quicker so I put it at 1650 for 12 seconds.
12 min
72 minutes. I’m glad everybody agrees on how time works >_<
Lmao. I did my conversion wrong. That’s all.
FWIW this principle is the primary reason most software built by InfoSys sucks balls. No racism/anti-Indian sentiment is required. The mere fact that so many developers can be cheaply assigned to a project virtually guarantees the low quality of the results, even if those developers are all competent to some degree.
One hour IS faster than three hours, however not better.
It looks burned but it’s raw inside
30 minutes at 1800°F:
Yes but the schedule says it should be done so we need to make it happen or the company will go bust. Come on guys we need you to work harder, everyone is putting in overtime to make this happen and you are being negative and telling us you can’t do it, what are we paying you for?
“Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units I don’t see another dime, so where’s the motivation?” - Peter Gibbons
everyone is putting in overtime to make this happen and you are being negative
“… now its 5pm and I’m leaving for the day, but when I come in tomorrow at 8am, I expect to see some real progress completed.”
I’ve worked at companies where I swear to fucking good the middle managers just don’t sleep at all.
I’m getting calls at 3am and asking how you even woke up, and I get told they never went to sleep.
Incidentally, also had three managers in that role inside twelve months. And then it just laid vacant for two years afterwards.
Give me a pay raise and I’ll put in the hours.
I actually said at one point “extra money can’t buy me sleep or time with my family”
Just need to pump those numbers up. Pay me $2000/hr and I’ll work 12 hour shifts. Pay me $4000/hr and I’ll work 24 hour shifts. $10k/hour and you’ll have me doing a 60 hour work day.
Don’t ask how it happens. Just trust me and pay me six months upfront.
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My dude, it’s almost 2026, who uses the word “retarded” anymore? (Stuff like “fire retardant” excluded.)
It’s unfortunately becoming more common.
Actually 🤓 for the real intelligent people 482 c = 755.15 Kelvin 149 c = 422.15 Kelvin
PMs: it’s the same picture
“The turkey is shipped, isn’t it?” - PMs, probably
Was the level of burned actually defined in the deliverable spec? Can we unburn it before the next deliverable date?
Can we unburn it before the next deliverable date?
Ow. I can feel that one in my gut. Project managers have asked me equally stupid questions. And I had to just politely say “No. I don’t think we can.”
Objection!
Going from one dev to three devs will make things faster, especially when it means I don’t have to work nights and weekends or take a sick day to deal with an anxiety attack
Over ruled!
All three of you get mandatory overtime with an extra helping of anxiety attacks.
