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May 11, 2007 17:46

A while back I read a funny story. I would like to find it again. Here is the situation ( Read more... )

help, question, amusing anecdotes

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anonymous May 11 2007, 10:49:19 UTC
heuristic search!

can you search for comments?

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erratio May 12 2007, 00:33:40 UTC
solution: one password for everything, then close your eyes and pretend you haven't just given hackers an easy way into your bank accounts :p

Also re:your first comment, it's not quite as bad as I made out because some of the posts have nothing at all to do with the topic, the timeframe was at least 2 weeks and less than 3 months, and so forth, but that still leaves a decent chunk for me to sort through by hand if I really wanna find it. I'm trying to think of other criteria but not coming up with much..

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anonymous May 11 2007, 16:02:27 UTC
That depends. Which site was this, and what was the story about?

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erratio May 12 2007, 00:28:46 UTC
it was http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/, and the story was about how some programmer went on vacation and left a pair of dice outside his door to stimulate the rigorous process he went through whenever he was asked to provide an estimate for how long a feature would take to code

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anonymous May 12 2007, 02:10:32 UTC
anonymous May 12 2007, 02:15:10 UTC
Why does livejournal magically linkify URLs in the preview, but not in the final post? Grrr.

Attempt 2 : http://www.google.com/search?q=estimate%20site%3Awww.shamusyoung.com%2Ftwentysidedtale

-David

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erratio May 12 2007, 04:32:04 UTC
:D

I bow before your google-fu

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