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56 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 07 March 2013 04:33AM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 07 March 2013 09:26:45AM *  29 points [-]

The 80/20 rule is especially true for cleaning. Better to get it 80% clean twice as often than 99% clean half as often.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 March 2013 01:08:44PM 2 points [-]

Not to mention the fact that getting it 80% clean will take much less that 80/99 of the time it'll take to get it 99% clean.

Comment author: handoflixue 08 March 2013 01:38:38AM 7 points [-]

My understanding of the 80/20 rule was "80% of the work takes 20% of the time", so this seems already covered?

Comment author: [deleted] 08 March 2013 09:18:58AM 1 point [-]

Yes, what was I thinking?

Comment author: RomeoStevens 12 March 2013 05:17:17AM 1 point [-]

Eh, I do this too since optimizing for saying more obvious things. But on net it's been a big improvement and worth the occasional brain fart.