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Racer James (toolbox)
Race Number 428
Date Sun, 2 Sep 2012 16:48:19
Speed 66 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 87.5%
Rank 1st place (out of 4)
Opponents jt1250champion (2nd place) sanjaaone (3rd place)

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The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed. Even the strategy of picking the "most likely date" is not particularly safe, as the area to the left of the peak of the curve is barely a third. That says there is a two-thirds chance of missing the deadline.
— (book) by Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister (see stats)