True, but on the other hand how many times have you been asked to do a task, but...

icefox on April 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How To Count A Billion Objects Using Only 1.5KB Of...

True, but on the other hand how many times have you been asked to do a task, but upon further investigation the answer they needed could be provided easier with a better question? So maybe they asked for a count, but they really just wanted to know if the count was more like 1K or 100K.

smackfu on April 5, 2012 [–]

OTOH, if you can't bound your estimate, most people don't want it.