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		PaulKeeble 64 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The hardest program I've ever written (2015) Normally when we are nearly there we say its 95% done and only 95% of the work remains. If your feeling is you are half done I suspect more than 50% of the work remains! What I know having done a lot in this space is we aren't close!

mikeday 64 days ago [–]

yeah, we often refer to the first 90% of the work and the second 90% of the work lol.

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