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A comment on Hofstadter's law.

Re:Hofstadter's law by jswinghammer on Thursday February 24, 2011 @10:25PM (#2260914)
I always get big laughs when I tell people about this. It's great first week on the job joke material.
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Re:Hofstadter's law by siglesias on Thursday February 24, 2011 @10:29PM (#2260926)
Even if you take into account that you've heard it before.
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Re:Hofstadter's law by jswinghammer on Thursday February 24, 2011 @10:32PM (#2260943)
Sad thing is that I can always assume that my audience hasn't heard it before. Kids these days. They don't read anymore!
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Re:Hofstadter's law by DTrejo on Friday February 25, 2011 @12:02AM (#2261134)
If you said planning fallacy, more people might understand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_fallacy

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