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by zentropia 2546 days ago
I will say that in sfortware you can estimate but because there are many unknown things it's difficult.

Is a bit like "How long it will take to discover the cure for cancer?"

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Yes!

"We have this problem, you see, where cells sometimes start to multiply aggressively instead of doing their job. That's a bug, the customers are complaining. How long will it take to fix it? What do you mean you don't know - not even a ballpark estimate?"