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bluerooibos 29 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce t...

Just curious if there's a reason you mentioned 8 or if that's an arbitrary number? Was 8 an industry norm/upper limit at one point?

elros 29 days ago [–]

Perhaps related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus...

reverius42 28 days ago | [–]

See also https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoPizzaTeam.html

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