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veemjeem on Nov 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to get your IP unbanned on HN

There's also the usual engineer estimation: "Oh, it will probably take a day to rewrite the code. We'll deploy it and it will probably work just fine in production."

Any engineer that has live code has made this mistake before.

smanek on Nov 9, 2012 [–]

Just to clarify, it will definetly take me more than a day to write/profile/test the changes (especially since I'll be learning arc in the process).

My hope is that it will only take a day or so to deploy it, once it's ready.

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