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    2 months ago

    You know, maybe we shouldn’t be taking estimation advice from a 1980s science fiction movie that amounts to a systematic method of lying.

    Yes, I’ve used it before. Yes, you can hopefully have everything average out in the end. Yes, project managers demand estimates. None of these are good reasons to back up how fundamentally flawed it is.

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        2 months ago

        Except people take that method seriously all the time. All the objections I raised were one’s people have actually thrown back at me.

        I’m tons of fun at parties. Everybody loves seeing my collection of bottles from defunct soda companies.