Weinberg’s Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
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Perhaps I need to know more about programming to get this one π
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Imagine a house made of sticks, held together with tread and covered with straw. Most programs aren’t written that well.
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π I’m get the picture now!
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Lol
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π
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That Weinberg offers some serious wisdom!
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He does.
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And he wouldn’t even get a headache π
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Likely all he’d have to do is land on it and bang, down it goes.
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What was Weinberg;s first law?
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Progress is only made on alternate Fridays.
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I love you original quotes. You need to gather them into a book! And I will buy it. π
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Thanks. Don’t know about a book – I’ve forgotten where I stole some of these from.
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Good one. More so because it’s true!
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It’s one of those, “funny because it’s true” things. π
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Having spent my entire career in IT and marrying someone who was a programmer when we first got married, this is on the mark! Another part is “We never have time to do it right but we always have time to do it twice.”
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On my current job the most common thing heard in the engineer team is, “We just need to do something, we’ll fix it right later.” Of course, later rarely happens.
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