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He contracted a company called Union Pacific to build from the East Coast and another company, Central Pacific, to build from the West. On May 10, 1869, after six years of hard work—including laying steel tracks in the Nevada desert and the devastating sacrifice of much human life—the two companies met in Utah, and the first transcontinental railroad was built.
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In the US, people were spending more time on mobile apps than the World Wide Web by 2011.
ColdFusion Presents
Dagogo Altraide
Words are too abstract
On the other end of the spectrum, projects that are too vague don’t work either. When a project is defined in a few words, nobody knows what it means. “Build a calendar view” or “add group notifications” sound sensible, but what exactly do they entail? Team members don’t have enough information to make trade-offs. They don’t know what to include or leave out. A programmer who worked in that situation said:
You’re solving a problem with no context. You have to be a mind reader. It’s like: “we’ll know it when we see it.”
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