When a 2-day task turns into a 2-week task π
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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I'll pull THIS story. It'll be easy.
When a 3 month task turn into a 3 year one
14 hours into writing the script that was going to save you from doing the task yourself and you can't quit now, too much time has been put into this endeavour.
"it's a piece of cake" - famous last words
Nothing is worse for me at work than when someone asks me for a delivery timeline
Ufff eeehhmm probably about two month or so in the best case. 5 years in the worst case and realistically about 9 months.
This makes me wanna LOL and cry at the same time.
And then we find ourselves falling victim to the sunk cost fallacy.
Is that metal? Did someone actually turn a tweet into a metal plaque? I'm not complaining, I think it's funny.
I'm really feeling all those hours I spend learning vim to never use vim.
Aww, I don't really code anymore and I'm in vim every day
Does it count if Iβm in vi only because I donβt know how to exit? I have to buy a new computer every time.
I literally use vi/vim for everything that I can. I would use it for gmail if there was a way.
I was hoping to open this and see someone show you a plugin to do that
you know what? I'm done. "while(..."
Looks like a repost. I'm up voting it.
If things were always as easy I thought they'd be my life would be a lot easier :/
Oh man, this hit me right in the face π«£.
So many times did I get myself into weeks, month and even years long projects thinking I'll be done in an afternoon... feature creep and my need to fidget with my code because its not perfect yet...