• an angrier terrarian
    43•2 years ago

    oooh thats my code never works

    i forgot to time travel to spend 90% of my time doing the last 10% of code. i get it now

      • aluminiumsandworm
        11•2 years ago

        oh, no, it’s far worse than that. the last 90% is enough time to make what you thought was the first 90% become 10%.

        so 0.9*expected time = 0.1* actual time

        which, if you can do some very basic algebra, results in 900%. this implies that every project will seem “almost done” for about 9x the length of time you thought the project would take. in my experience, this is roughly correct

        • Johanno
          5•2 years ago

          As someone who has been working on a “almost done” Task for 2 years I can confirm.

    • @aksdb@feddit.de
      6•2 years ago

      I also heard (and used) it as a mix of both: “the last 20% take as long as the first 80%”

  • KSP Atlas
    14•2 years ago

    I mean, it makes sense, 90% of the code is probably relatively easy while the 10% is intricate

    • @henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      Embedded dev: basic OS functions not so bad.

      Task switcher and interrupt code, short but painfully difficult to write correctly.