From: "Juan Diego Tascón" <juantascon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alternative to thunderbird?
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:23:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA0N71VQk=ZEMndCzfBaq1=DTr_hy_vjB5reaA7Ny1oSvEPUpw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201202230021.36636.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
+1 for sup
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Peter Humphrey
<peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 February 2012 20:14:05 Alan McKinnon wrote:
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>> You'd have to read "The Mythical ManMonth" to truly do it justice (it's a
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>> really good book for developers btw).
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> That book used to be required reading in my coding days (70s and 80s).
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> On our projects we used to say: the first 50% of the project takes the first
> 90% of the time, and the second 50% takes the other 90%.
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> Then we'd go out to tender when the project was cancelled at board level.
> (This was in the electricity supply industry.)
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> As Alan said, in software development nobody ever learns the lessons they
> should.
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> --
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> Rgds
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> Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
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>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-23 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-18 20:28 [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird? Grant
2012-02-18 20:36 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-18 20:44 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-18 21:06 ` Grant
2012-02-19 0:40 ` Grant
2012-02-19 11:26 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-18 20:37 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-18 21:26 ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-18 22:02 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-18 20:42 ` Alecks Gates
2012-02-19 1:30 ` Michael Trausch
2012-02-19 1:38 ` Grant
2012-02-20 6:58 ` Fuzz
2012-02-20 18:11 ` Jorge Martínez López
2012-02-20 21:33 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-20 23:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-20 23:39 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-22 0:56 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-02-22 6:55 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-22 17:26 ` Grant
2012-02-22 20:14 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-22 20:56 ` Grant
2012-02-23 0:21 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-02-23 14:23 ` Juan Diego Tascón [this message]
2012-02-19 3:09 ` [gentoo-user] " ny6p01
2012-02-19 10:09 ` Mick
2012-02-19 16:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2012-02-19 18:01 ` Michael Orlitzky
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