Click on the links on the right to answer the following questions.
Use Link 1 to answer the following questions. True or False: Thomas Malthus argued that populations tend to decrease faster than the supply of food.
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Which of the following works did Thomas Malthus write?
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Use Link 2 to answer the following questions. True or False: According to Brook’s Law, “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”
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In his book The Mythical Man-Month, Fred Brooks writes:“The number of months of a project depends on its sequential constraints. The maximum number of men depends on the number of independent subtasks. From these two quantities, one can derive schedules using fewer men and more months.”
How does this relate to the concept of diminishing returns?
Click on Link 3 and watch the YouTube video clip from the movie The Social Network. In this particular scene, a group of computer programmers sits in front of their laptops at the same round table. Each person is competing on who can hack a website the fastest.
How many computer programmers does it take to hack a website? Discuss.
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