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This is true, but mainly because you’ve constrained both problems to a well-defined domain. Stick-built single family residential construction is nothing like b
by bumby 4y ago
This is true, but mainly because you’ve constrained both problems to a well-defined domain. Stick-built single family residential construction is nothing like building a hospital or bridge any more than “hello world” is like a business CRUD app or avionics software.
- robertlagrant 4y agoAlmost all construction projects are houses, whereas no software projects are hello world.
- bumby 4y agoOk, then replace “hello world” with a website. Would you hire someone to write avionics software because they only have web experience? They’re plenty of people who group them together because they’re both “just software” but it really just shows their ignorance rather than their understanding of the domain
- robertlagrant 4y agoThat doesn't matter to this. The point is that neither task is particularly estimable due to the amount of discovery required, rather than due to the difficulty of the task.
- bumby 4y agoThat's a better way of putting my point, thank you. I wasn't necessarily meaning to compare the difficulty of the tasks, but rather the dissimilarity of them which leads to additional discovery effort. But on retrospect, I can see why it would come across as a comparison of difficulty.