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charlieok on June 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time

From the headline, my first thought was that this was going to be about estimating development time/effort on a project.

NoahSussman on June 20, 2012 [–]

Falsehoods we believe about estimating development time/effort:

1. For any non-trivial project, it is possible to estimate development time and/or effort with a reasonable degree of accuracy.

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