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With the utmost of respect for Knuth and his work... I sometimes joke that this book is the ultimate example of programmers being bad at estimating how long the
by davidw 7y ago
With the utmost of respect for Knuth and his work... I sometimes joke that this book is the ultimate example of programmers being bad at estimating how long their work will take.
- smitty1e 7y agoThink of Knuth as the Niagara Falls of "waterfall". In super slow-motion. The water has travelled about half of the distance down. "Agile", he is not.
- davidw 7y agoStopping to create TeX was a world-class bout of yak-shaving. Like everything he's done, we're the better for it, but what a detour!