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Simon Willison : Understanding Engineers: Feasibility - Understanding Engineers: Feasibility. Charles Miller provides smart definitions of what programmers mean when they say “impossible”, “trivial”, “unfeasible”, “non-trivial”, “hard” and “very hard”.
Rod Begbie : The Fishbowl: Understanding Engineers: Feasibility - Every person who has any contact with software engineers Must Read This. Accurate definitions of the oft-used words "impossible", "trivial", "unfeasible", "non-trivial", "hard" and "very hard". [via] #
deusx : The Fishbowl: Understanding Engineers: Feasibility - "here's a quick lexicon of what computer programmers generally mean when they're talking about how hard some problem is, starting with the most extreme"
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