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TheOtherHobbes on Dec 19, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Are Projects Always Behind Schedule?

But then you'd expect it to converge, and that would break the law.

Cost estimation is an NP problem. Perhaps it will become practical when we can use a quantum supercomputer to estimate the time needed to build a single page web app.

ArkyBeagle on Dec 19, 2015 [–]

No, because you'll just ask it to build it in constant time. Software costs more to measure than to do.

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