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Originally Posted by sealbeater
Read the thread. As anther person did, you are making the mistake of mixing my original words with my responses to others words.
If I say it would take me 20 minutes, I've already stated in the thread that that was hyperbole representing the effort needed.
When someone says:
I naturally responded that I don't have a couple of days worth of time in response to this.
Reading comprehension. It would serve you well.
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Let's go back to your reply,
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Originally Posted by sealbeater
The suggestion to drop all of my current projects, including my day job, was the respondent's, not mine.
As for scripting it out in 20 minutes, I don't know *exactly* how long it would take for me to do it but I don't think it would be overly difficult. Take the 20 minute timeframe as an indicator of the relative difficulty of the problem, not an estimation of exact time spent.
Most of it would be generating the epub file and how best to output the pdf for cleaning.
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Nowhere in there do you say it was hyperbole. So you say it was level of effort, and you don't know *exactly*. When you make an estimation "of effort" using "time", you should try to give some indication of how much you would be off. Pretty close estimation, than it would take 20 man minutes; of you are off by a factor of 2, than 40 man minutes; a man day would be off by a factor of 72. Don't blame other people for challenging you for your Humpty Dumpty definitions of "effort" and "time".