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Are you good at estimating how long things would take?



I'm good at estimating what parts of a task will take a long time.


For any task? That's simply not possible.


I estimate that the time estimate for any part of any task can be calculated in approximately the time it would take to complete that task.


> I'm good at estimating what parts of a task will take a long time.

I think it's trivial. I didn't say I can estimate how long the hard parts will take, just what the hard parts will be. If I don't understand something, I estimate that it will take a long time.




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