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A comment on The One in Which I Call Out Hacker News (2009).

Re:The One in Which I Call Out Hacker News (2009) by shrikant on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @07:22PM (#6486114)
When a developer says "That looks/sounds easy; I could knock that up in a weekend!" about a project, they have to be especially more careful about who is within earshot.

Heaven forfend a manager type gets a whiff of an over-optimistic estimate -- that's a great recipe for a completely avoidable death-march.

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Re:The One in Which I Call Out Hacker News (2009) by lukifer on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @07:58PM (#6486275)
I use such off-the-cuff estimates as red flags indicating developers who have likely never built anything scratch; the number of 10x devs who could do such projects "in a weekend" are small, and even then, they would still probably not make such claims with certainty.
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