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Always Multiply Your Estimates by π (2013)

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268 points behnamoh | 1 comments | 27 Sep 21 04:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.43s | source
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andreareina ◴[27 Sep 21 11:10 UTC] No.28669282[source]▶
There was a claim I saw somewhere that the actual time required fits an exponential distribution with the estimate as the scale factor. Does anybody know the actual source, or a pointer thereto? This is assuming that the study actually exists and it isn't a "just so" story...
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1. jrh206 ◴[27 Sep 21 13:56 UTC] No.28670673[source]▶
I think this is the article that you’re recalling: https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-l...