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You can't impress developers. So don't try. I've been working on a tool for making PERT estimates easier and, consequently, done a bunch of reading about PERT, wherein lots of the work is of a statistical or mathematical nature.

You can't impress developers. So don't try.

But I also ducked across to the psychological research to get a feel for the human factors. Psychologists consider estimation problems under the heading of "the planning fallacy". Linus Torvalds goes off on Linux and Git. I was in a coffee shop in Portland, Oregon and happened to spot Linus Torvalds sitting alone at a window table.

Linus Torvalds goes off on Linux and Git

I asked the creator of the Linux operating system and the Git source code control system if I could join him. Over the next fifteen minutes we talked about programming and programmers. Typical Programmer: It’s been 20 years since Linux was released. Now it’s one of the most widely-used operating systems. Programming. Design & Development. Extremeprogramming. Semantic Web.

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