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Re:Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today by salawat on Thursday September 26, 2024 @11:34AM (#41659604)
Reply: what's my resource budget? Not figuring out something utterly pointless because you won't want to spend the resources to make it happen.

See: the full rewrite/retool

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Re:Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today by reaperducer on Thursday September 26, 2024 @12:25PM (#41660297)
Reply: what's my resource budget?

This resonates with me. I get a lot of "But Microsoft Office 365 Cloud does…"

I tell them that Microsoft spent a quarter of a billion dollars on that item last year, and I'm perfectly happy to re-create it if they give me a quarter of a billion dollars, too.

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