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Answers questions on Frederick Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management: efficiency, standard methods and the role of managers, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“Third. The inefficient rule-of-thumb methods, which are still almost universal in all trades, and in practicing which our workmen waste a large part of their ef…”
Answers questions on reproducible, ethical and collaborative data science from The Turing Way handbook, citing the exact chapter in the GitHub repo the-turing-way/the-turing-way (CC BY 4.0). Not an official Turing Way product.
“#### Improve code efficiency As mentioned above, the amount of energy spent on running a computation depends on how long the particular computation runs. One wa…”
Answers questions on Henry George's Progress and Poverty: why poverty persists as wealth grows, rent, wages and the taxation of land values, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
“What is remarked between the efficiency of labor in the agricultural districts of England where different rates of wages prevail; what Brassey noticed as betwee…”
Answers questions on Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class: conspicuous consumption, conspicuous leisure and pecuniary emulation, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“…, in addition to what goes to give them efficiency for the material use which they are to serve. This habit of making obvious costliness a canon of serviceabili…”
Answers questions on laws, principles and patterns developers and teams run into, such as Conway's law, Brooks's law and Hyrum's law, citing the GitHub repo dwmkerr/hacker-laws (CC BY-SA 4.0).
“…hat improvements in coal-burning engine efficiency led to *increased* coal consumption, not decreased. More efficient engines made coal economically attractive …”
Answers questions on Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations: division of labour, markets, prices, wages and trade, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book and chapter.
“Parsimony, by increasing the fund which is destined for the maintenance of productive hands, tends to increase the number of those hands whose labour adds to th…”
Answers questions on Francis Bacon's Essays: short counsels on studies, truth, friendship, ambition, revenge and other topics, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the essay.
“## Of Expense”
Answers questions on the Bun runtime, package manager, test runner and bundler, citing the exact file in the public docs of the GitHub repo oven-sh/bun (MIT). Not an official Bun product.
“## Tradeoffs”
Answers questions on P. T. Barnum's The Art of Money Getting: golden rules on choosing a vocation, avoiding debt, persevering and advertising, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the rule.
“True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; me…”
Answers travel questions on Portugal and Lisbon: trams, trains, food, fado and sights, citing the Wikivoyage guides (CC BY-SA). Check current details before you travel.
“### Costs”
