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Procedure to make a baby? (9)
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Reproduce
Unbelievable... I got this in 10 seconds! 
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Congratulations - you are up tomorrow!
Care to explain for the others?
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The definition of "Reproduce" is "to make a baby"... not sure how else to explain..? 
I thought since I got this as soon as I read it, it would be as obvious to everyone else
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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And REPRODUCE is an anagram of PROCEDURE
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Yes, of course, that too 
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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All this time I thought he was a theoretical physicist.
*hides*
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I heard he hated his military uncle: General Relativity.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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What's the difference between juvenile humor and Dad jokes? Dad jokes are full groan!
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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All this time i thought he was a complex person... 
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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He was actually a Quaternion - 4-dimensional. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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The Lounge
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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That joke must have come from Einstein county, where everyone is a relative.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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I misread "Einstein" as "Epstein" and spend good one minute trying to figure out the joke. 
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Well, don't get hung up over it.
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In my teenage years, we made the observation that this so called 'debut age' is a highly complex value.
What parents, teachers and other authorities tried to make us believe that was the 'typical' or 'normal' debut age, was the imaginary part, which was a lot larger than the real part, the one we saw around us.
I have seen surveys and statistics claiming to refer to an absolute value of the debut age. Due to the large difference between the imaginary part promoted by our parents and teachers, and the real part we experienced, the claimed absolute value tended to be way above the real one we experienced, much closer to the imaginary one promoted by our parents.
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Physicist jokes are Bohring. At least Fermi they are.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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I don't buy it. Franklin, you're just advenTuring...
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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You are a Feynman. Were you Born this way?
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I tend to underestimate myself. Barring the occasional snafu, my estimates run conservative - very, to the point where clients expect if I say a day, I'll have it in an hour. If I need a week, it means a day or maybe a day and a half. It's like that.
People consistently tell me I'm fast, maybe in part because of the above, but I even get it here at codeproject sometimes, and other programming venues I haunt. I'd be foolish not to acknowledge it, even if it feels awkward doing so.
Realistically, even if I don't change how I estimate to my clients, I'd like to be able to more accurately assess myself. Confidence plays a part, and I get imposter syndrome a lot. Sometimes I'm confident, because intellectually I know I'm in my element, but over all I tend to magnify my own shortcomings and short sell myself in terms of what I can deliver.
How the heck do you do it? It's far from the worst thing in the world, being underestimated, even by myself. It has advantages, like me not going over my estimates. Still at the same time it would be nice if I knew what a project was actually going to cost me to deliver.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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honey the codewitch wrote: How the heck do you do it?
It is all about risk estimation and failure acceptation.
In my experience, things tend to turn better out than planned or expected in most of the cases, whatever you do, so I think your underestimation is not that uncommon. Even if from times to times, it need that extra strength (read a couple of sleepless nights) to bring it on the right track again, it works. And in very rare occasion, it fails - and coping with failure is something one needs to learn.
So simply shift the cursor slowly to the risky side until you feel you touched the red lines a couple of time, and then shift it in the other direction again to enable you a buffer.
Maybe a hint : As someone having to rely a lot on estimates of other people to plan my own work, here's how I like it:
1. Very Late is a no go, so do not overestimate your speed. I do not work with people who blow my schedule more than once - unless they have a very good justification, I mean, sh*t happens.
2. Slightly late is my level of expectation -> My assumption is that people need about 20% more time than they announce, and this proved quite solid in my experience, even if that seems a lot.
3. Slightly early is good.
4. Very early gives an ambivalent feeling : I of course enjoy having my requested stuff done on time, but it looks like you are not mastering your businnes and do estimatiton based on wind direction, or that it was a mistake to give it out if it was so easy to do. Plus I could have planned more for that sprint/order, so overall, it does not give a good confidence about scheduling, even if quality is good.
So until you have found your cursor position, do not deliver too early even if your work is done - it does not give as good an image as you may think.
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