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Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug(2020)
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1 point
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Willingham
on Feb 15, 2025
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Hacker Laws
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1 point
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ioxnav
on July 12, 2024
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Hacker Laws
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3 points
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Olshansky
on Sept 2, 2023
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Hacker Laws
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3 points
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atulatul
on Aug 31, 2023
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Hacker Laws
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270 points
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maltalex
on Jan 1, 2022
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44 comments
Hacker Laws
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1 point
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maltalex
on Dec 1, 2021
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Gall's Law
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3 points
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noworriesnate
on Nov 30, 2021
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Hacker Laws
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14 points
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MakisH
on Oct 1, 2021
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Hacker Laws – The Dunning Kruger Effect
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2 points
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dwmkerr
on Dec 3, 2020
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Hacker Laws – All models are wrong, but some are useful
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3 points
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dwmkerr
on Sept 23, 2020
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Hackerlaws – The Shirky Principle – Institutions try to preserve the problem
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2 points
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dwmkerr
on Sept 9, 2020
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Hacker Laws – Chesterson's Fence
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1 point
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dwmkerr
on July 2, 2020
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Hacker Laws – Linus' Law
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1 point
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dwmkerr
on June 22, 2020
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Hacker Laws – Fitts' Law
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2 points
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dwmkerr
on June 5, 2020
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Hacker Laws – CAP Theorem / Brewer's Theorem
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3 points
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dwmkerr
on June 1, 2020
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Hacker Laws: The 90-9-1 Principle
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3 points
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dwmkerr
on March 23, 2020
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Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug it
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289 points
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dwmkerr
on Feb 17, 2020
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153 comments
Hacker Laws Update: Occam's Razor
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4 points
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dwmkerr
on Jan 7, 2020
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Hacker Laws Update – The Broken Windows Theory
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1 point
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dwmkerr
on Dec 10, 2019
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Hacker Laws: Theories, principles and patterns that developers will find useful
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203 points
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dwmkerr
on Nov 22, 2019
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27 comments
Hacker Laws Update: The Fallacies of Distributed Computing
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5 points
by
dwmkerr
on Nov 7, 2019
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Laws, theories, principles and patterns that developers might find useful
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92 points
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signa11
on Nov 4, 2019
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10 comments
Hacker Laws Update: Metcalfe's Law
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3 points
by
dwmkerr
on Nov 4, 2019
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Hacker Laws Update – Reed's Law: The Utility of Large Networks
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3 points
by
dwmkerr
on Oct 29, 2019
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Cunningham's Law: The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is
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1 point
by
dwmkerr
on Sept 23, 2019
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The Dilbert Principle: Companies tend to systematically promote incompetent to
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3 points
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dwmkerr
on Aug 21, 2019
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Hacker Laws: People in a hierarchy tend to rise to their level of incompetence
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1 point
by
dwmkerr
on Aug 13, 2019
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Hacker Laws Update: Murphy's Law / Sod's Law
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1 point
by
dwmkerr
on July 22, 2019
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Gall's Law – “A complex system that works is invariably found to
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3 points
by
dwmkerr
on July 8, 2019
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Hacker Laws Update: Hutber's Law – Improvement Means Deterioration
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1 point
by
dwmkerr
on June 28, 2019
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