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Re:Software developers describing their work in 1973 [video] by ashark on Thursday November 05, 2015 @04:02PM (#10516096)
No-one's willing to take the huge amount of time it takes to design a software system and accurately estimate how long it will take to build it.

They're happy to pretend good estimates are possible without that, though, and complain endlessly about how bad estimates always are.

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Re:Software developers describing their work in 1973 [video] by nightski on Thursday November 05, 2015 @05:11PM (#10516481)
It's a self fulfilling prophecy. It's because this is not possible, since often software is a never ending journey. Today's requirements are not tomorrow's requirements. If only we could freeze time.
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