Haha I've also heard some devs say "How long is a piece of string?" when asked how long something is going to take. Debugging is such a tricky one, because like you said, it's so hard to estimate when you're not sure what the issue is (and if you were sure, you probably wouldn't be debugging!).
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I don't understand this "How long is a piece of string?" but reading it, it occured to me that if I don't have a map and I stand at one end of the road then in order to estimate how long it is, or how long it will take me to walk to the other end, I actually have to walk to the other end.
Yeah, "how long is a piece of string" is a pretty bizarre English saying in my opinion! There's a pretty interesting account on the etymology of the phrase here: english.stackexchange.com/question...
Haha I've also heard some devs say "How long is a piece of string?" when asked how long something is going to take. Debugging is such a tricky one, because like you said, it's so hard to estimate when you're not sure what the issue is (and if you were sure, you probably wouldn't be debugging!).
I don't understand this "How long is a piece of string?" but reading it, it occured to me that if I don't have a map and I stand at one end of the road then in order to estimate how long it is, or how long it will take me to walk to the other end, I actually have to walk to the other end.
Yeah, "how long is a piece of string" is a pretty bizarre English saying in my opinion! There's a pretty interesting account on the etymology of the phrase here: english.stackexchange.com/question...
That's a good one too. I'll totally start using it 😆
I said "How long is a piece of string" at least 5 times today.
I also said "what you want to achieve is not feasible, go back to the drawing board" at least twice.