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True, always the last 10% consume as much effort as the 90%
by dudeson 13y ago
True, always the last 10% consume as much effort as the 90%
- Buttons840 13y agoI've always phrased it tongue-in-cheek: "The first 90% of the work takes 90% of the time. The last 10% of the work takes the other 90% of the time.
- rockybox 13y agoThat reminds me of the Pareto Principle (20/80): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle I've found it to apply to many things in life. Edit: why would this be downvoted?
- erichocean 13y agoBecause someone tried to upvote you on a smartphone, and Hacker News has a stubbornly non-mobile friendly design, with no undo.
- felipellrocha 13y agoLol. Yep. I accidentally do that every so often, and I always feel bad about it.
- MarkTee 13y agoDoes anyone know what the rationale for not allowing users to undo votes is? I'd be happy even if it were only accessible for the first few minutes after the initial action... There have been several times where I've accidentally upvoted low-quality (sometimes malicious) posts, and I never feel good about it.
- DanBC 13y agoIndividual downvotes are sometimes errors and are usually quickly corrected.
- jamesbritt 13y ago"Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical." -- Yogi Berra Same math applies to software and book-writing