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From: Mike & Jill Johnson shadowrn@******.net
Subject: Some matrix queries
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:32:07 -0600
At 04:50 PM 10/24/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Of course, it's not like the programming rules are all that coherent
>either...768 base days to program...taking the example from VR2...getting 4
>successes (two bought with Karma)...192 days..which is a little over 6
>months. Then add in task bonuses, and its still a long time working :) All
>this is VR2 of course. Matrix times may, or maynot be better, often times
>the lack of task bonuses get in the way of lower programming times.

This made me wonder also. I've just started getting into programming in
the real world and the times seemed way off to me. So I went over and
talked with one of the programmers here at work (Thankfully he's a gamer
also and didn't think I was crazy asking about this). Turns out that the
large programs and the times it takes are actually pretty accurate.

Mike

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