Wisdom in Space<p>Nine people can't make a baby in a month.<br> -- Fred Brooks (On adding programmers to a late-running project)</p><p>⬆ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wisdom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/FredBrooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FredBrooks</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Computers</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a></p><p>⬇ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panorama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Panorama</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BartolomeIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BartolomeIsland</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PinnacleRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PinnacleRock</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Galapagos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Galapagos</span></a></p>
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Wisdom in Space<p>Nine people can't make a baby in a month.<br> -- Fred Brooks (On adding programmers to a late-running project)</p><p>⬆ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wisdom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/FredBrooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FredBrooks</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Computers</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a></p><p>⬇ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panorama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Panorama</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ChacoCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChacoCanyon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panopainting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Panopainting</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewMexico</span></a></p>
Wm.son<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Software</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Manpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manpower</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FredBrooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FredBrooks</span></a></p><p>A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:<br>Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. -Fred Brooks, computer scientist (19 Apr 1931-2022)</p>
Arie van Deursen<p>Bumped into this NYT obituary for Fred Brooks. Somehow I had missed it in 2023. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/technology/frederick-p-brooks-jr-dead.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2022/11/23/technol</span><span class="invisible">ogy/frederick-p-brooks-jr-dead.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/FredBrooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FredBrooks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/BrooksLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrooksLaw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/IBM360" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM360</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/OS360" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OS360</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/MythicalManMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MythicalManMonth</span></a></p>
Soh Kam Yung<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.lawprofs.org/@SteveBellovin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>SteveBellovin</span></a></span></p><p>Adding <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Computers</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/IBMS360" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBMS360</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Bits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bits</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Bytes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bytes</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/FredBrooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FredBrooks</span></a> tags to this, so it can be picked up (hopefully) by Mastodon searches.</p><p>Topic: Historical note on how 8 bits make a byte.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>b0rk</span></a></span></p>
kowsvc :runbsdBg:<p>OBIT Dr Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr, leader of IBM's OS/360 project and the man chiefly responsible for the prevalence of the eight-bit byte, has died at the age of 91.</p><p>Fred Brooks was the project lead for OS/360, IBM's flagship OS for its vastly influential S/360 line of computers. His experience on this project led him to write probably the most famous book about project management, The Mythical Man-Month. From that book came several famous dictums about computing. Some notable examples include:</p><p>- "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."<br>- "The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned."<br>- "All programmers are optimists."</p><p>RIP Fred 'Mythical Man-Month' Brooks: IBM guru of software project management<br><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/28/fred_mythical_man_month_brooks/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2022/11/28/fre</span><span class="invisible">d_mythical_man_month_brooks/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bsd.network/tags/fredbrooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fredbrooks</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/mythicalmanmonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythicalmanmonth</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/os360" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>os360</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/ibm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ibm</span></a></p>
Danny Faught<p>My tribute to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FredBrooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FredBrooks</span></a>. He was a contemporary of Jerry Weinberg at IBM and possibly the first person to use the term "architecture" for computers. Jerry said to me -</p><p>"Fred asked me if I thought the term 'architecture' was appropriate for what he was doing in designing the 360. Nowadays, with the term 'architecture' bandied about in meaningless ways, I regret that I told him it was okay."</p>
Jan van den Berg<p>Fred Brooks overleed vorige week. Een markante persoonlijkheid die ooit na een gefaald project bij IBM ontslag wou nemen. Zijn baas wou dat niet.</p><p><a href="https://janvandenberg.blog/rip-fred-brooks/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">janvandenberg.blog/rip-fred-br</span><span class="invisible">ooks/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/ibm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ibm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/fredbrooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fredbrooks</span></a></p>
John Washam 🍹<p>With the death of Fred Brooks, a friendly reminder: the key takeaway people have from his book is usually misquoted. </p><p>You *can* add more engineers and get projects done faster if the tasks are *parallelizable* and there is clear agreement about the interactions (example: software contracts).</p><p>"When a task cannot be partitioned because of sequential constraints, the application of more effort has no effect on the schedule."</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/fredBrooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fredBrooks</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/management" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>management</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/projectManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>projectManagement</span></a></p>
heise online<p>Maskierte Interrupts und mythische Mann-Monate: Zum Tode von Fred Brooks</p><p>Im Alter von 91 Jahren ist der Informatiker und Computer-Pionier Fred Brooks gestorben. Zwei Sätze aus seinen Schriften wurden zu "Computer-Gesetzen" erklärt. </p><p><a href="https://www.heise.de/news/Maskierte-Interrupts-und-mythische-Mann-Monate-Zum-Tode-von-Fred-Brooks-7346587.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.-.-" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">heise.de/news/Maskierte-Interr</span><span class="invisible">upts-und-mythische-Mann-Monate-Zum-Tode-von-Fred-Brooks-7346587.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.-.-</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nachruf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nachruf</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FredBrooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FredBrooks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RIP</span></a></p>
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David Ribes<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@jswilkins" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jswilkins</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://scholar.social/@ehud" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ehud</span></a></span> </p><p>Is worth reading for anyone interested in computation <a href="https://hci.social/tags/histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histodon</span></a> <a href="https://hci.social/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sociology</span></a>. I've encountered versions of the MMM concept in all of kinds of primary sources. RIP <a href="https://hci.social/tags/FredBrooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FredBrooks</span></a></p>
Chad Hanna 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🇪🇺obituary
loedu<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://floss.social/@pleia2" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pleia2</span></a></span> <br>Oh, such sad news! 😢 <br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/showmeyourcopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>showmeyourcopy</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FredBrooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FredBrooks</span></a></p>
Brian Owen<p>Sad to hear of the passing of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FredBrooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FredBrooks</span></a>. Truly a giant in the field. We’d all do well to remember Brooks’ law - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%2</span><span class="invisible">7s_law</span></a></p>
Elizabeth K. Joseph<p>"Fred Brooks, Jr.: Birth of the 360 Project" via the Computer History Museum: <a href="https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mainframe-computers/7/162/2270" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">computerhistory.org/revolution</span><span class="invisible">/mainframe-computers/7/162/2270</span></a> </p><p>His dunks on JCL are hilarious <a href="https://floss.social/tags/FredBrooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FredBrooks</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/JCL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JCL</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/column73" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>column73</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/mainframe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mainframe</span></a></p>
thegeekinside<p>So sad, ironically I began to re-reading Fred's books this week... 😿 <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/mythical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythical</span></a>-man-month <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>design</span></a>-of-design <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/fredbrooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fredbrooks</span></a></p><p><a href="https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/11/18/1352233/fred-brooks-has-died" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.slashdot.org/story/22/11/</span><span class="invisible">18/1352233/fred-brooks-has-died</span></a></p>
Ehud<p>I notice that my first inclination was to go to Twitter and search for Fred Brooks and read all the eulogies. It’s a shame that this isn’t as easy to do here. Hopefully people will remember to use a hash tag. <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/FredBrooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FredBrooks</span></a>.</p>
Ehud<p>RIP <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/FredBrooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FredBrooks</span></a> a legend in computer science and software engineering. His Mythical Man-Month book should be required reading for people in the field and is also a historical milestone.</p>
Elizabeth K. Joseph<p>Mourning a legend.</p><p>How often do we bring up the Mythical Man Month? <a href="https://floss.social/tags/showmeyourcopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>showmeyourcopy</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/FredBrooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FredBrooks</span></a></p>
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