Hacker Laws

by kaonwarb • 1 year ago

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JSR_FDED• 1 year ago

So many people get Occam’s razor wrong. I like the way you describe it as the least number of concepts and assumptions, rather than just “simplest”.

onre• 1 year ago

I feel this is a side-effect of so many people getting "simple" wrong, as in, calling things simple because they superficially seem so, even while being aware of but ignoring the underlying complexities.

voidhorse• 1 year ago

Completely agree. It's entirely about eliminating unnecessary distinctions, not about relative simplicity (which would need to be defined in context—we do not have a universal notion or measure of "simplicity" or complexity—any such notions we do have are domain dependent and usually observer dependent).

gozzoo• 1 year ago

How is "least number of concepts and assumptions" different than “simplest”?

onionisafruit• 1 year ago

Sometimes I see a post and immediately know it’s going to take over my day. I’ll probably spend at least three hours reading this and the linked wikipedia articles.

esafak• 1 year ago

To the author: Nice site. The very first link, https://effective-shell/, is broken.

hakaneskici• 1 year ago

https://effective-shell.com/

dwmkerr5• 1 year ago

thanks for the heads up, just fixed!

mergy• 1 year ago

Please add

Jevons Paradox

dwmkerr5• 1 year ago

on this list to go in: https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws/issues/446

bookofjoe• 1 year ago

To the author: "Download the PDF eBook" link

https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws/releases/download/v0....

is broken

carlesfe• 1 year ago

In case somebody comes looking for the working link: https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws/releases/download/v0....

dwmkerr5• 1 year ago

just saw this, fixing at the moment

PhilippGille• 1 year ago

Good collection. One rule I found missing is the Rule of Three: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(computer_prog...

dwmkerr5• 1 year ago

love it, tracking now

khaledh2• 1 year ago

I'd add Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

dwmkerr5• 1 year ago

Tracking now https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws/issues/448

from-nibly• 1 year ago

Don't forget WET (write everything twice)

extraduder_ire• 1 year ago

That's under DRY.

khaledh2• 1 year ago

Hoare's Law of Large Programs: Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.

ksec• 1 year ago

I often found when something involves an insanely large number or objects the 90–9–1 Principle holds true. But when things is smaller to medium size 80/20 can be used. But I still dont have a good / decent theory how to link the two together. I wonder if anyone has any materials on it.

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