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"I didn't know how hard it would be" - man I wish I had that. I feel like I know exactly how hard everything will be.
by csours 5y ago
"I didn't know how hard it would be" - man I wish I had that. I feel like I know exactly how hard everything will be.
- xaduha 5y agoAre you good at estimating how long things would take?
- csours 5y agoI'm good at estimating what parts of a task will take a long time.
- monsieurbanana 5y agoFor any task? That's simply not possible.
- Intermernet 5y agoI estimate that the time estimate for any part of any task can be calculated in approximately the time it would take to complete that task.
- csours 5y ago> I'm good at estimating what parts of a task will take a long time. I think it's trivial. I didn't say I can estimate how long the hard parts will take, just what the hard parts will be. If I don't understand something, I estimate that it will take a long time.
- bitexploder 5y agoHard things can only be hard. The rest is a function of time :)
- hkt 5y agoI can't find it now, but you've reminded me of the description for an experimental optimiser flag on a perl compiler from what must have been 15 years or more ago. It promised it would always deliver a working binary that was functionally identical to the original script, but that it may not do so in finite amounts of time.
- ZephyrBlu 5y agoIt sounds like you're either very experienced, or have never tried anything really ambitious before.
- AlbertCory 5y agoI'm reading a very short & cryptic book "Three Uses of the Knife" by David Mamet, the playwright and director. It's about the basis of great art. You've hit on something here that resonates with all of us. "The Hero's Journey" involves the hero in Act I embarking on a quest. In Act II unforeseen difficulties beset him, maybe he doubts himself, the quest changes, and HE changes. In Act III, he completes the maybe-different task, as a changed person. So this guy enacted some of that journey, and I admire him so much for it.