Matthias Jordan wrote:
> Totaling less than 70 lines of code. Do you
really want to fork a
[...]
But, hey, the diff is still only 150 lines in size.
:-)
That's o.k., I think we all know that when a programmer says 1 week,
it means 2, and when a programmer says 70 lines of code, it really
means 140! :-)
For awhile, I tried to defeat this mysterious law of nature by doubling
my own estimates before I told anyone. Didn't help, because it still is
true that whatever you promise someone, the actuality is twice as bad!
If I think "this will take a week" and so double it and promise it in
two weeks, then it takes 4.
;-)
--Jimbo