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A while back I read a funny story. I would like to find it again. Here is the situation:

I know the main site it came from. The story was contained in a comment to a post. I don't remember what the original post was about, nor do I remember the exact wording for the story, so googling is out. I don't even remember the exact timeframe I read the story in, nor did I talk about it online with anyone at the time (in case I could search chat logs to get a better idea of the date).

So.. is there any way to find this comment short of checking every post within the last 6 months or so?

EDIT: David has awesome Googling skills that I can only envy. Thank you!

And here's the story:
A developer was going on vacation for a few weeks, but knew that his contribution to the upcoming product would be scheduled while he was gone. So he put a tray outside his office holding two six-sided dice and a note reading “To estimate the development time required for any features I am developing, please roll the dice. The total is the number of weeks the feature will take to code and test.” The project manager went ballistic and called him in and said “you can’t do this!” The developer replied, “this is what I’ve been doing for the past five years when people asked me to predict development times, and my estimates have been just as good as anyone else’s.”

For an interesting analysis of project management and the skills required, here's the link to read the surrounding comments: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1087

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

heuristic search!

can you search for comments?

[mednez.livejournal.com]

gah, lj logged me out

[mednez.livejournal.com]

then had to figure out what my password was, eventually reset it, and realise that because it has to have a digit in it i knew what it was all along :s

[erratio.livejournal.com]

solution: one password for everything, then close your eyes and pretend you haven't just given hackers an easy way into your bank accounts :p

Also re:your first comment, it's not quite as bad as I made out because some of the posts have nothing at all to do with the topic, the timeframe was at least 2 weeks and less than 3 months, and so forth, but that still leaves a decent chunk for me to sort through by hand if I really wanna find it. I'm trying to think of other criteria but not coming up with much..

[(Anonymous)]

That depends. Which site was this, and what was the story about?

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it was http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/, and the story was about how some programmer went on vacation and left a pair of dice outside his door to stimulate the rigorous process he went through whenever he was asked to provide an estimate for how long a feature would take to code

[(Anonymous)]

Google is your friend :)

http://www.google.com/search?q=estimate%20site%3Awww.shamusyoung.com%2Ftwentysidedtale

Second hit

-David

[(Anonymous)]

Why does livejournal magically linkify URLs in the preview, but not in the final post? Grrr.

Attempt 2 : http://www.google.com/search?q=estimate%20site%3Awww.shamusyoung.com%2Ftwentysidedtale (http://www.google.com/search?q=estimate%20site%3Awww.shamusyoung.com%2Ftwentysidedtale)

-David

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:D

I bow before your google-fu